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Miles from Home *** (1988, Richard Gere, Kevin Anderson, Penelope Ann Miller, Brian Dennehy) – Classic Movie Review 9151

Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson star as folk hero brothers Frank and Terry Roberts, who fight back illegally when their Iowa farm goes bankrupt, by robbing the banks foreclosing on farmers, in Gary Sinise’s 1988 […]

Dec, 13

The Tramp **** (1915, Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Ernest Van Pelt) – Classic Movie Review 9011

Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1915 silent comedy The Tramp (with English intertitles) stars Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp, who works on a family farm and is hurt rescuing the Farmer (Ernest Van Pelt)’s daughter (Edna Purviance) […]

Oct, 23

Fanny Lye Deliver’d **** (2019, Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds) – Movie Review

Writer-director Thomas Clay’s labour of love Fanny Lye Deliver’d (2019) is a thinking person’s horror thriller set in Cromwell’s England on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. You don’t get many thinking person’s horror […]

Oct, 12

The Hired Hand **** (1971, Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 8537

The overwhelming, unexpected success of Easy Rider allowed Peter Fonda the chance to direct himself, as Harry Collings and Warren Oates as Arch Harris, in the ‘meaningful’ 1971 Western The Hired Hand as drifters toying […]

Jun, 02

Dog Day [Canicule] *** (1984, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Bernadette Lafont, David Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 8440

Lee Marvin is ideal as Jimmy Cobb, a brutal American bank robber on the run with several million dollars, hiding out with a French country family of farmers, who become fascinated by his almost magical presence […]

May, 06

Mr Majestyk **** (1974, Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo) – Classic Movie Review 8320

The 1974 Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s playful but tough original thriller screenplay. It is Bronson’s only cinema movie written […]

Apr, 01

The Life of Jimmy Dolan ** (1933, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 8024

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]

Jan, 16

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