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Tess **** (1979, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4407

Co-writer/ director Roman Polanski delivers a rich, faithful, spirited and satisfying 1979 film version of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Tess was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and went […]

Sep, 24

Valentine’s Day **½ (2010, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Kathy Bates, Patrick Dempsey, Topher Grace, Jennifer Garner, Eric Dane, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel) – Classic Movie Review 4333

LA florist Ashton Kutcher wakes up next to attractive Jessica Alba and proposes to her. But soon she is doing the unthinkable – rejecting him. How could you, Jessica? Well, it is Valentine’s Day, and Kutcher […]

Sep, 10

Cinderella Man ** (2005, Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 4331

Russell Crowe brings on the brawn as Thirties boxer Jim Braddock, who falls on hard times, but he seizes his second chance in 1934 when a champ needs a stand-in fighter. Punchy in the knockout […]

Sep, 10

Little Women **** (1949, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Rossano Brazzi, Lucile Watson, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4266

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 movie Little Women is an expensive and colourful remake of director George Cukor’s 1933 classic Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel about four sisters finding romance. The lovely […]

Aug, 29

Little Women ***** (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Paul Lukas, Spring Byington, Edna May Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 4265

Director George Cukor steers this antique 1933 classic RKO movie of the novel by Louisa May Alcott safely and smoothly to the screen, with a great vintage cast to help him. Little Women (1933) won […]

Aug, 29

Morocco ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4262

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]

Aug, 28

Summer with Monika [Sommaren med Monika] **** (1953, Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen) – Classic Movie Review 4250

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s sensitive but unsentimental account of the decline of a teenage love affair between the wild 17-year-old girl Monika (Harriet Andersson) and the 19-year-old youth Harry Lund (Lars Ekborg) is based on the novel […]

Aug, 27

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