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Beau James *** (1957, Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 9434

Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]

Feb, 27

Believe in Me *** (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 9425

Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1971 drama Believe in Me stars Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset. Sarrazin was in a relationship for seven years (1967–1974) with Bisset, whom he met while making The Sweet Ride (1968). Hagmann, the director […]

Feb, 24

The Believer *** (2001, Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, Garret Dillahunt) – Classic Movie Review 9423

Writer-director Henry Bean’s critically acclaimed 2001 drama The Believer is a fascinating and sincerely intentioned but highly controversial and disturbing psychological drama, based on fact, starring a convincing Ryan Gosling as Danny Balint, a young […]

Feb, 24

Last Exit to Brooklyn **** (1989, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 9409

It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]

Feb, 22

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies *** (1960, Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 9364

Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]

Feb, 09

Marriage Story ***** (2019, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Julia Greer, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta) – Movie Review

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical Marriage Story (2019) should be called Divorce Story. It is the portrait of a marriage breaking up, broken up, and a once-loving couple trying to pick up the pieces. Adam Driver, […]

Feb, 08

Little Women ** (2019, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Little Women (2019) is nominated for six Oscars and five Baftas, but it is an over-earnest, plodding and underwhelming movie, with writer-director Greta Gerwig struggling to make Louisa May Alcott’s novel more ‘modern’ and ‘relevant’ […]

Jan, 14

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