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I Could Go on Singing **** (1963, Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman) – Classic Movie Review 6,728

The often impressive and moving 1963 British drama film I Could Go on Singing memorably pairs Dirk Bogarde with Judy Garland in her last film before her tragic death from an accidental barbiturate overdose in […]

Feb, 24

The Dinner **** (2017, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny) – Movie Review

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall are. And it all because their teenage sons, Charlie Plummer, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick and Miles J Harvey, have got into quite a spot of bother. Coogan […]

Dec, 08

Wonder **½ (2017, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Izabela Vidovic) – Movie Review

Lionsgate is the studio that started developing this feature film adaptation of R J Palacio’s debut novel Wonder right back in 2012. It proved a good decision. It has already grossed $73 million worldwide on a $20 […]

Dec, 02

BPM (Beats Per Minute) [120 battements par minute] ***** (2017, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud) – Movie Review

Robin Campillo’s 2017 French activism film and AIDS drama BPM (Beats per Minute) is emotionally overwhelming, incredibly powerful, and truly inspiring. There shouldn’t be a dry eye in the house at the end – and […]

Oct, 07

Les Parents Terribles [The Storm Within] ***** (1948, Jean Marais Josette Day Yvonne de Bray) – Classic Movie Review 5831

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s spirited, theatrical, steamy 1948 French film of his own 1938 stage play about a Paris family driven crazy by the overpowering love of the mother Yvonne aka ‘Sophie’ (Yvonne de Bray) for […]

Jul, 30

Only the Lonely *** (1991, John Candy, Maureen O’Hara, Ally Sheedy) – Classic Movie Review 5773

Writer-director Chris Columbus’s 1991 comedy stars John Candy as timid middle-aged Chicago cop Billy Muldoon who wants to throw off his nagging old bat of a domineering Irish mother (Maureen O’Hara) and marry nice Polish-Italian […]

Jul, 16

The Marrying Kind **** (1952, Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 5701

Director George Cukor’s 1952 Columbia Pictures black and white movie is an engaging bitter-sweet comedy, with laughs and serious undertones, about the marriage breakup of married couple Florence ‘Florrie’ and Chet Keefer (Judy Holliday and […]

Jul, 03

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