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I Married a Witch **** (1942, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7189

Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]

Jun, 18

The Fighter ***½ (2010, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Yeo) – Classic Movie Review 4617

Boxing movies are a dime a dozen – and there have of course been great ones, from Champion and Rocky to Raging Bull and more recently Ali, Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man. Director David O […]

Nov, 08

Portrait of Jennie **** (1948, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Henry Hull, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 4568

Director William Dieterle’s mysterious and enjoyable 1948 romance tells an engagingly peculiar story. It stars Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones as the destitute, unsuccessful Depression era artist Eben Adams (Cotten) who meets the ghostly, eerily […]

Oct, 30

A Quiet Passion **** (2016, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Joanna Bacon, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Duncan Duff) – Movie Review

Cynthia Nixon is astonishing as the American poet Emily Dickinson in writer-director Terence Davies’s 2016 biographical drama film A Quiet Passion. Emily Dickinson: ‘Clarity is one thing; obviousness is quite another.’ Cynthia Nixon is tremendous, […]

Oct, 10

Manchester by the Sea **** (2016, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, C J Wilson) – Movie Review

Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]

Oct, 07

Mermaids *** (1990, Cher, Bob Hoskins, Michael Schoeffling, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci) – Classic Movie Review 3338

Director Richard Benjamin’s popular 1990 US comedy stars Cher as an eccentric single mother called Mrs Flax who, after yet another failed relationship, moves to a small Massachusetts town in 1963 with her precocious daughters Charlotte […]

Feb, 07

The Finest Hours **½ (2016, Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Holliday Grainger, Eric Bana, Ben Foster) – Movie Review

In a lavish, painstaking production, Walt Disney Pictures remember and celebrate the heroic story of a daring, against-all-odds rescue attempt by the US Coast Guard after two oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in February 1952 off the coast of Cape […]

Feb, 05

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