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The Hate U Give **** (2018, Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, K J Apa, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Common) – Movie Review

Amandla Stenberg gives a stellar performance as troubled high school teen Starr Carter, in director George Tillman Jr’s epic crime/ race drama The Hate U Give. Audrey Wells writes a very convincing, well organised screenplay based on […]

Oct, 27

Major Barbara **** (1941, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Marie Lohr, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7428

Major Barbara is the pick of producer-director Gabriel Pascal’s attempts to bring George Bernard Shaw to the movies, with Wendy Hiller starring nobly as the Salvation Army girl Major Barbara Undershaft, who quits when they […]

Aug, 11

Sayonara *** (1957, Marlon Brando, Miyoshi Umeki, Miiko Taka, Red Buttons, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Owens, Kent Smith, Martha Scott, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 7275

Director Joshua Logan’s 1957 romantic drama Sayonara won four Oscars and stars Marlon Brando and Red Buttons as US air force Major Lloyd ‘Ace’ Gruver and Airman Joe Kelly, a pair of US Korean war servicemen buddies, […]

Jul, 10

Madeleine *** (1950, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Ivor Barnard, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7085

Madeleine (1949) is a lesser but still intriguing effort from ace all-time great British director David Lean, who casts his then wife Ann Todd in the real-life story of Madeleine Smith who was accused of […]

May, 22

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House **** (2017, Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas) – Movie Review

Fascinating story, really well told. Neeson excellent. Writer-director Peter Landesman’s riveting 2017 biographical historical drama Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a fascinating story, really well told. Landesman’s screenplay is most satisfying […]

May, 21

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid *** (1982, Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes) – Classic Movie Review 6896

Director Carl Reiner’s enjoyable 1983 black and white parody movie stars Steve Martin in a fun, likeable modern-day film noir spoof comedy in which detective Rigby Reardon (Martin) is sent on a chase by sexy […]

Apr, 07

Rome Adventure *** (1962, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6820

The soft and soapy 1962 romantic melodrama film Rome Adventure is handsomely produced with cute stars (Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson), lovely Italy views, fine Max Steiner music and even some wit. Writer-producer-director Delmer […]

Mar, 18

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