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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
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Golden Boy ***** (1939, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Calleia, Lee J Cobb, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5201
In 1939 director Rouben Mamoulian films Clifford Odets’s classic theatre play Golden Boy (with Luther Adler starring on stage) and it becomes a star-making tour de force for William Holden as a prizefighter Joe Bonaparte, […]
What a Girl Wants * (2003, Colin Firth, Amanda Bynes, Oliver James, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor, Jonathan Pryce, Sylvia Syms) – Classic Movie Review 4510
Amanda Bynes stars as US teen Daphne who falls for young Brit hunk Ian (Oliver James) when she comes to England to find her long-lost dad, wealthy British politician lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth). He does not […]
Toni Erdmann **** (2016, Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn) – Movie Review
Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller are brilliantly funny in writer-director Maren Ade’s endlessly hilarious epic comedy about an embarrassing dad trying to reconnect with his workaholic businesswoman daughter. The retired German dad, Winfried Conradi, is a constant […]
Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198
The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]
Say Anything… **** (1989, John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 4016
Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s fresh and original 1989 teenage comedy drama stars John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, a self-assured, underachieving loner teen who has set his eyes on a couple of prizes – kickboxing and the beautiful class […]
Hands of the Ripper **** (1971, Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Dora Bryan, Derek Godfrey, Keith Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3109
‘The Hands of Jack the Ripper Live Again… As His Fiendish Daughter Kills Again… And Again…And Again…’ Director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films British chiller Hands of the Ripper stars Angharad Rees as the beautiful […]
Fathers and Daughters ** (2015, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Diane Kruger, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review
Director Gabriele Muccino’s heart-tugger is an old-fashioned women’s film, done with plenty of confidence and expertise but unfortunately not enough skill. With a good, expert cast, the talent’s all there, but there are gaping holes throughout the […]