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My Dear Miss Aldrich *** (1937, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 11,262

‘The Season’s Gayest Love Story!’ A young, attractive Nebraska newspaper heiress, Miss Martha Aldrich (Maureen O’Sullivan), repeatedly clashes with the stubborn managing editor (Walter Pidgeon) of the New York paper she has inherited. His attitude […]

Jun, 02

The Homesman **** (2014, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Hilary Swank stars as the plain, pious, independent-minded spinster farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, who volunteers to transport three women driven insane by pioneer life across country by covered wagon in the 1850s, when life is nasty, […]

Nov, 19

Boys Don’t Cry **** (1999, Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 1372

Co-writer/director Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 drama stars Hilary Swank, who won a deserved Best Actress Oscar for her astounding performance as young Teena Brandon, who choses to live as a man – Brandon Teena. This outrages […]

Jun, 28

Duets **** (2000, Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Angie Dickinson, Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Maria Bello) – Classic Movie Review 892

My how time flies! It’s the year 2000 and Angie Dickinson is playing Gwyneth Paltrow’s grandmother, for heaven’s sake, and Huey Lewis is playing her father in her real father Bruce Paltrow’s touching, clever, bitter-sweet […]

Mar, 10

Nebraska ***** (2013, Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach) – Film Review

The 77-year-old Bruce Dern won the Best Actor award at Cannes as booze-addled old Woody Grant, who wrongly thinks he’s won $1million in a Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize giveaway and intends to claim it even […]

Oct, 15

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