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Ever in My Heart **** (1933, Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 9652

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 romantic drama Ever in My Heart finds Barbara Stanwyck on top tragic form as Mary Archer, who marries foreign – German! – academic Hugo Wilbrandt (Otto Kruger) pre-World War One. Hugo […]

Apr, 19

For Better, for Worse [Cocktails in the Kitchen] ** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Eileen Herlie) – Classic Movie Review 9,576

Dirk Bogarde brings a touch of class to writer-director J Lee Thompson’s predictable but sometimes funny 1954 British domestic comedy romance film For Better, for Worse [Cocktails in the Kitchen]. Dirk Bogarde brings a touch […]

Mar, 30

Le beau mariage [A Good Marriage] **** (1982, Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine) – Classic Movie Review 9459

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s highly stylish and diverting Comedy and Proverb character study, ideas picture and talk scenario centres on a French 1920s art student (Béatrice Romand), Sabine, who looks for an ideal love, or, in […]

Mar, 04

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13

Marriage Story ***** (2019, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Julia Greer, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta) – Movie Review

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical Marriage Story (2019) should be called Divorce Story. It is the portrait of a marriage breaking up, broken up, and a once-loving couple trying to pick up the pieces. Adam Driver, […]

Feb, 08

The Facts of Life *** (1960, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore) – Classic Movie Review 9208

Director Melvin Frank’s 1960 black and white romantic comedy drama The Facts of Life is a pleasurable, civilised vehicle for Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as Larry and Kitty, two married folk from the ‘burbs […]

Dec, 31

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

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