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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
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Ricki and the Flash ***½ (2015, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield, Audra McDonald) – Movie Review
Nothing stops Meryl Streep. The three-time Oscar-winner stars as Ricki, a hard-rocking, singing guitar chick who years back gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom, which somehow has never happened. In Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo […]
Summer Stock **** (1950, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 2513
Director Charles Walters’s 1950 Technicolor musical Summer Stock is the third and last pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Poignantly, and sadly, it is the troubled Garland’s final movie for her studio MGM. She […]
The Duff *** (2015, Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell) – Movie Review
Mae Whitman plays kooky Bianca, a high school senior who is shocked to find out that she has been labelled the DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier more popular friends. But she’s a […]
Funny Lady **** (1975, Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 2271
Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]
Poor Cow ***** (1967, Carol White, Terence Stamp, John Bindon, Kate Williams, Queenie Watts) – Classic Movie Review 2268
Co-writer/director Ken Loach makes his ground-breaking and eye-catching feature movie début filming Nell Dunn’s novel in 1967. Restored and re-released in 2016, it comes up devastatingly fresh – incisive, poignant and funny too. Carol White triumphs […]
Dance with a Stranger **** (1985, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 2054
Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett are superb in director Mike Newell’s powerful, moving and subtle 1985 movie account of the tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain hanged for murder back in […]
Admission *** (2013, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review
Director Paul (About a Boy) Weitz’s niche comedy focuses on a middle-aged woman who’s spent the last 16 years vetting applications from brilliant young aspiring students desperate to get into the elite Princeton uni. Tina […]