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Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]

Mar, 05

Phffft! **** (1954, Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, Jack Carson, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 5,088

The sparky, surprisingly sexy, 1954 bedroom farce film Phffft! stars funny Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday as a couple who marry and then split up and divorce after eight years of marriage. It’s kind of […]

Mar, 01

Cast a Dark Shadow *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4984

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1955 British thriller stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, and Kay Walsh. With John Cresswell’s screenplay based on the play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green, this is a stagey and creaky but still […]

Feb, 16

The Exorcism of Emily Rose *** (2005, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore) – Classic Movie Review 4815

Co-writer/ director Scott Derrickson’s scary, well-crafted and literate 2005 American legal drama horror film, loosely based on a true story about Anneliese Michel, won the 2005 Saturn Award for Best Horror or Thriller Film and […]

Dec, 29

The Young Philadelphians *** (1959, Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Billie Burke, John Williams, Otto Kruger, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 4637

Director Vincent Sherman’s soapy 1959 novel-to-film transfer The Young Philadelphians is trashy but very polished and compulsive, with a lot of plot to fill the long 136 minute running time. It was nominated for three […]

Nov, 12

Darkman **** (1990, Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake) – Classic Movie Review 4589

Co-writer/ director Sam Raimi’s dynamic, visually stylish and thrilling Grand Guignol 1990 horror comic movie has its centre in an admirably grave performance from  Liam Neeson as Darkman. Bringing class and gravity, Neeson plays a […]

Nov, 04

The War of the Roses **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 4563

Director Danny DeVito’s exuberant 1989 black farcical comedy, in which marriage turns out to be a bed of thorns for Mr Oliver and Mrs Barbara Rose, reunites the three stars of Romancing the Stone – […]

Oct, 29

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