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The Company of Wolves **** (1984, Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Brian Glover, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 3358)

Based on Angela Carter’s short stories, co-writer/director Neil Jordan’s 1984 British Gothic fantasy horror film is an alluring, visionary Freudian fairy tale for grown-ups. Spooky, sexy, gorgeous and unique, this is a marvellous, special film. […]

Feb, 14

Winter’s Bone **** (2010, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt) – Classic Movie Review 3269

Writer-director Debra Granik scores a triumph with her scalding 2010 American independent feminist thriller, based on Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel. The 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence sweeps to stardom as a teenage girl in the rural Ozark […]

Jan, 16

Imitation of Life **** (1959, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert Alda, Mahalia Jackson, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 3249

Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]

Jan, 08

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618

The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]

Jun, 19

The Crucible *** (1996, Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 2583

Arthur Miller’s famous 1952 drama about a community torn apart by mass hysteria has lost none of its relevance in 1996. The handsome looking production is capably helmed by British director Nicholas Hytner (maker of […]

Jun, 12

The Beguiled **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2577

Producer-director Don Siegel’s 1971 cult Civil War Western chiller is a rich and strange, and often quite beautiful movie. It was Siegel’s favourite of his films. It reunites him with Clint Eastwood, who stars as […]

Jun, 09

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