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A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

Disturbia *** (2007, Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer, Aaron Yoo) – Classic Movie Review 3030

Shia LaBeouf stars as a teenager living under house arrest who becomes convinced his creepy neighbour (David Morse) is a serial killer in director D J Caruso’s involving and suspenseful Rear Window-style thriller. Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) […]

Nov, 03

Body Double *** (1984, Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry) – Classic Movie Review 2931

Co-writer/producer/director Brian De Palma’s 1984 soft-core Alfred Hitchcock-style crime mystery suspense thriller focuses on a resting actor called Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), just dumped from a grotty horror movie, who then comes home to find […]

Sep, 29

The Great Gatsby *** (1974, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 2630

Director Jack Clayton’s painstaking, beguilingly romantic 1974 version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 is the third movie of the classic work. It is lit up with captivating performances headed by Robert […]

Jun, 22

Ma Vie en Rose **** (1997, Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent) – Classic Movie Review 2557

Co-writer/director Alain Berliner’s brave and extraordinary 1997 Belgian-French-UK movie centres on its heart-warming story about a little seven-year-old boy called Ludovic Fabre (Georges Du Fresne, aged 12) who dreams about being a little girl, troubles […]

Jun, 05

Mon Oncle [My Uncle] ***** (1958, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie) – Classic Movie Review 2411

In the first of his films to be released in colour, co-writer/director/star Jacques Tati is working confidently, imaginatively, inventively and successfully at around the peak of his comic ingenuity and cleverness. Honoured by Hollywood with […]

Apr, 20

Tension **** (1949, Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 2,391

MGM’s gripping, moody 1949 film noir crime thriller Tension stars Richard Basehart as a timid pharmaceutical expert who plots to assume a fake identity and kill the boyfriend of his brassy, faithless wife (Audrey Totter). […]

Apr, 14

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