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Paint Your Wagon *** (1969, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 2183

Director Joshua Logan’s 1969 musical is infamous as the one that got Clint Eastwood singing (‘I Talk to the Trees’) and landed Lee Marvin with a number one UK pop chart hit (‘Wand’rin’ Star’), earning […]

Feb, 19

Shaun the Sheep Movie **** (2015) – Movie Review

Try and hard as you like, it’s impossible to resist this incredibly sweet, charming, inventive and amusing stop-motion animated caper from Nick Park and the guys at Aardman Animations, of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken […]

Feb, 04

The Good Earth **** (1937, Luise Rainer, Paul Muni, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 2025

Director Sidney Franklin’s famous 1937 epic drama scored Luise Rainer her second Best Actress Oscar (after the previous year’s The Great Ziegfeld) and she and Paul Muni earned much deserved praise for their roles as […]

Dec, 31

Babe ***** (1995, James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh) – Classic Movie Review 1391

It’s a real pig to make a successful film with universal appeal to adults and children alike, so this 1995 Aussie heart-warmer is as great a surprise as it is a delight. Now this is […]

Jul, 03

The Magnificent Seven ***** (1960, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 1362

Producer-director John Sturges’s memorable 1960 Western is deservedly greatly admired and much loved. It stars Yul Brynner in one of his best and most famous roles as the honourable and steadfast gunfighter Chris Adams, who recruits […]

Jun, 25

The Farmer’s Wife *** (1928, Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill) – Classic Movie Review 1,334

Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh movie The Farmer’s Wife is this modestly engaging 1928 silent romantic comedy film of the Eden Phillpotts hit stage play about grumpy widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who seeks a new […]

Jun, 18

Jesse James **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 1063

Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]

Apr, 06

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