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Chances Are *** (1989, Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr, Ryan O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 9139

Director Emile Ardolino’s cute 1989 fantasy romance Chances Are is about a woman, Corinne Jeffries (Cybill Shepherd), still faithful to her murdered lawyer husband, Louie Jeffries (Christopher McDonald). Many years later, Louie comes back to […]

Dec, 08

Always *** (1985, Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, Melissa Leo) – Classic Movie Review 9075

Writer/ producer/ director Henry Jaglom’s clever and cultish 1985 romantic drama Always is a Woody Allen-style tale of a group of friends with love, marriage and divorce on their minds – one couple is going […]

Nov, 17

Lord Love a Duck *** (1966, Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 9030

Director George Axelrod’s 1966 romantic comedy drama Lord Love a Duck stars Roddy McDowall, then 38 in real life, who plays the ever-youthful, brilliant high school senior Alan Musgrave making innocent co-student Barbara Ann Greene […]

Oct, 30

84 Charing Cross Road **** (1987, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 9028

Director David Jones’s 1987 drama 84 Charing Cross Road features subtle and affecting performances from Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, bringing to life this glowing and delightful film version of Helene Hanff’s memoirs (and its […]

Oct, 29

Kings Go Forth *** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8922

‘One Gave Her Everything a Woman Could Want… One Took Everything a Woman Could Give!’ Director Delmer Daves’s 1958 black and white World War Two romance action drama, Kings Go Forth is based on the […]

Sep, 20

Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882

‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]

Sep, 07

Eye of the Needle *** (1981, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Stephen MacKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8843

Director Richard Marquand’s 1981 British wartime romantic adventure thriller film Eye of the Needle stars Donald Sutherland, who is on best menacing form as Herr Faber, the deadly Nazi agent who discovers a ruse by […]

Aug, 19

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