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The Changeling **** (1980, George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 7978

Director Peter Medak’s 1980 Canadian film The Changeling is a truly creepy, scary and effective spook-house horror movie. George C Scott is excellent as the widowed musician / composer Professor John Russell, who moves from […]

Jan, 04

Dad **** (1989, Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey, Ethan Hawke, Zakes Mokae, JT Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 7046

Writer-producer-director Gary David Goldberg’s sweet but, happily, not too sickly 1989 comedy drama Dad is taken from the novel by William Wharton and stars the splendid team of Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy […]

May, 13

Checking Out * (1989, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 7038

Director David Leland’s 1989 comedy stars Jeff Daniels as airline worker family man Ray Macklin, who is suddenly convinced that  his number will be up any moment after his best friend dies of a heart […]

May, 11

Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7025

The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. It is noisy, funny and full of action, but it was a troubled […]

May, 09

Sentimental Journey ** (1946, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6312

Director Walter Lang’s 1946 drama is true to its title, and then some. It is an outrageously unabashed, very sentimental and shamefully mawkish tearjerker about a dying Broadway actress who adopts a child to keep […]

Nov, 25

Wall of Noise *** (1963, Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Dorothy Provine, Ralph Meeker, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 6243

Director Richard Wilson’s capable and underrated 1963 drama is a standard marital soap opera with a seemingly arbitrary horse-racing background tacked on just for colour. But that turns out to be a good thing. Colour […]

Nov, 13

The Merchant of Four Seasons [Händler der vier Jahreszeiten] **** (1972, Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla) – Classic Movie Review 6192

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 German film is his earliest success and arguably first masterwork. Hard work but rewarding, it is a credibly written and performed assault on middle-class values, with the director’s typical mix […]

Nov, 06

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