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3 Women **** (1977, Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 10,471

‘1 woman became 2/2 women became 3/3 women became 1’. Writer-director Robert Altman’s 1977 avant-garde drama film 3 Women is an Ingmar Bergmanesque study of vain old folks’ home worker Millie (Shelley Duvall), new mysterious teenage helper […]

Oct, 27

Baby Boom *** (1987, Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis) – Classic Movie Review 10,387

Director Charles Shyer’s 1987 comedy Baby Boom stars Diane Keaton as J C Wiatt, a successful New York yuppie ad executive dubbed ‘The Tiger Lady’, who is suddenly confronted with a different lifestyle when she […]

Oct, 06

Postcards from the Edge **** (1990, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 10,245

Director Mike Nichols’s 1990 celebrity memoirs movie Postcards from the Edge finds Shirley MacLaine bravely playing an ageing, drinking, domineering Mommie Dearest-type star named Doris Mann and Meryl Streep playing her drug-abusing actress daughter, Suzanne […]

Aug, 31

Ladies Who Do *** (1963, Peggy Mount, Miriam Karlin, Dandy Nichols, Robert Morley, Harry H Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 9703

Four formidable British comedy stalwart ladies – Peggy Mount, Miriam Karlin, Avril Elgar and Dandy Nichols – head the superb Sixties British comic cast of director C M Pennington-Richards’s fairly amusing 1963 farcical comedy Ladies […]

May, 02

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington **** (1987, Joan Hickson, Maurice Denham, Joanna David, Mona Bruce, Jean Boht, Juliette Mole, David Beames) – Classic Movie Review 9635

The agreeable 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington stars Joan Hickson in her ninth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s novel. Miss Marple’s friend Mrs McGillicuddy sees a murder […]

Apr, 14

Little Joe **** (2019, Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Lindsay Duncan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Jessica Hausner’s engrossing, unsettling and oddly disturbing posh horror fantasy mystery Little Joe (2019) is extremely smart and clever. It looks smart and its script is clever. The acting direction and production are […]

Mar, 07

Way Down East ***** (1920, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 9449

Producer-director D W Griffith’s 1920 heart-tugging black and white silent romantic drama Way Down East stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Lowell Sherman, and is based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker and William […]

Mar, 01

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