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Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] * (1974, Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 10,309

Director Jan Troell’s 1974 romantic Western drama Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] tells the wispy, dull story of the love affair between spirited Scandinavian mail-order bride Hannah Lund (Liv Ullmann) and her grouchy Californian […]

Sep, 15

Someone’s Watching Me! **** (1978, Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, James Murtaugh) – Classic Movie Review 6009

Writer-director John Carpenter 1978 classic TV movie thriller is in the best Alfred Hitchcock vein. It is suspensefully directed with a highly attractive, gutsy performance from Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels, a TV news director […]

Sep, 09

She Couldn’t Say No [Beautiful but Dangerous] ** (1954, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 5712

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1954 interesting but misfiring would-be comedy is set in a town symbolically called Progress, Arkansas, where a beautiful millionairess called Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) goes home to the place she was brought […]

Jul, 04

Easy Living **** (1937, Jean Arthur, Ray Milland, Edward Arnold, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash, Franklin Pangborn, William Demarest, Barlowe Borland, Andrew Tombes, Esther Dale) – Classic Movie Review 5206

‘IT HAS NO RHYME…IT HAS NO REASON…IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE…IT MAKES LAUGHS! ‘ Well, that is an interesting route to go. Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1937 movie is a bright, clever and fast slapstick romantic comedy […]

Mar, 27

The Gift **** (2015, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall stars as youngish married couple Simon and Robyn, whose life goes spiralling into meltdown after a chance encounter with Simon’s old high school acquaintance Gordo (Joel Edgerton). Initially, Simon doesn’t even recognise Gordo at […]

Aug, 06

The Shop Around the Corner ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Felix Bressart, William Tracy) – Classic Movie Review 2512

The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch romcom is a Christmas delight, telling the story of two employees (Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart) at a Budapest leathergoods store in the lead-up to Christmas.  Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 sparkling romantic […]

May, 23

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