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Intimate Relations *** (1996, Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker) – Classic Movie Review 7067

Julie Walters enjoys herself hugely as Marjorie Beasley, a rapacious Fifties English seaside town landlady who fancies her new young seaman lodger Harold Guppy (Rupert Graves) and plots to seduce him and ends up sharing […]

May, 19

Light in the Piazza **** (1962, Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6837

Director Guy Green’s tasteful and quite rousing 1962 British romantic drama Light in the Piazza is sweetly told, expertly made and neatly acted, and is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome […]

Mar, 20

Rome Adventure *** (1962, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 6820

The soft and soapy 1962 romantic melodrama film Rome Adventure is handsomely produced with cute stars (Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Angie Dickinson), lovely Italy views, fine Max Steiner music and even some wit. Writer-producer-director Delmer […]

Mar, 18

I, Tonya **** (2017, Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney) – Movie Review 

Director Craig Gillespie’s bold and tough-toned 2017 movie tackles the controversial life story of American competitive ice skater Tonya Harding and casts Margot Robbie, who gives a brave, battling performance, as convincing on the ice […]

Jan, 12

The Miniver Story *** (1950, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Leo Genn, Cathy O’Donnell, Henry Wilcoxon, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 5849

When he made The Servant in 1963, the film proclaims ‘introducing James Fox’, which is supposed to means that it is someone’s first film, but Fox had been working since he was 10. He was […]

Aug, 03

Dear Ruth *** (1947, Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Billy DeWolfe, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 5828

Director William D Russell’s lightly entertaining 1947 film is a stage to screen transfer of Norman Krasna’s Broadway theatre  hit about a political activist teenage schoolgirl called Miriam Wilkins (Mona Freeman) who writes torrid love letters […]

Jul, 30

Bellissima **** (1951, Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli) – Classic Movie Review 5715

Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Maddalena Cecconi, who fights other mothers to get her pretty child Maria (Tina Apicella) into a new movie being made at Cinecittà, in co-writer/ director Luchino Visconti’s 1951 Italian neo-realist […]

Jul, 05

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