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Waiting for the Barbarians **** (2019, Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson) – Movie Review
Mark Rylance is tremendous in a low-key, bright-burning performance as The Magistrate ruling benignly over an empire’s distant outpost, who is confronted by the arrival of evil torturing policeman Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), in director Ciro […]
Diary of a Madman *** (1963, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Stephen Roberts, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 8735
An evil spirit called the Horla (voice of Joseph Ruskin) possesses 19th-century French judge and sculptor Magistrate Simon Cordier (played by Vincent Price), who graduates from killing his pet canary to his model Odette Mallotte […]
Summer Storm **** (1944, George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Edward Everett Horton, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6303
‘The FLASH of a Knife… The SCREAM of a Girl… The WRECK of a Man…’ Hollywood goes Russian in German-born director Douglas Sirk’s really rather splendid 1944 film noir-style crime drama adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s […]
Z ***** (1969, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 3679
The real-life 1963 murder of prominent Greek leftist Gregorios Lambrakis forms the basis for this brilliant, fast-paced political thriller from political film-maker Constantin Costa-Gavras that won the 1970 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria). […]
A Passage to India **** (1984, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3178
After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]
The Vampire Bat *** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3159
‘These are the TALONS of The Vampire Bat’ Director Frank Strayer’s deliciously dated 1933 horror movie stars Lionel Atwill as Dr Otto von Niemann, a batty scientist who sends his hapless helpers Ruth Bertin (Fay […]
Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809
Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]