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Loving **** (2016, Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols tells the compelling and moving true story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, and their ground-breaking legal challenge of their arrest for their marriage in Virginia. The movie is really well handled and, […]

Jan, 31

The Patricia Neal Story *** (1981, Dirk Bogarde, Glenda Jackson, Mildred Dunnock, Ken Kercheval, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 4872

Dirk Bogarde is tempted out of retirement for his first TV movie (one of only three that he did) as children’s author Roald Dahl, paired effectively with Jackson (also her TV movie debut) as his […]

Jan, 10

Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] *** (1949, Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth) – Classic Movie Review 4836

Director Ingmar Bergman’s intriguing, well-detailed early 1949 movie Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] still has a strong emotional pull but its appeal is mainly for his diehard fans who want to be completist. Eva Henning […]

Jan, 02

Heartburn *** (1986, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels) – Classic Movie Review 4828

Producer-director Mike Nichols’s engrossing 1986 movie memorably stars Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in their prime. They make a predictably electric star pairing in a serious comedy drama based on Nora Ephron’s best-selling semi-autobiographical novel […]

Dec, 30

Autumn Leaves **** (1956, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Ruth Donnelly, Shepperd Strudwick, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4801

Joan Crawford stars as Millicent ‘Milly’ Wetherby, a middle-aged typist spinster in the autumn of her salad days, who takes a crazy, out-of-character decision to marry Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson), a charismatic but highly dubious younger […]

Dec, 21

Autumn Sonata [Höstsonaten] ***** (1978, Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Halvar Björk, Lena Nyman, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 4800

  In 1978, writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman found a surprise backer in Lord Lew Grade’s ITC for his long-awaited teaming with his namesake Ingrid Bergman. At the time British producer Lord Grade was trying to finance […]

Dec, 21

The Group **** (1966, Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Larry Hagman, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 4705

Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]

Nov, 26

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