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Free Solo **** (2018, Alex Honnold, Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless) – Movie Review

Free Solo (2018) is an exhilarating, nail-biting, penetrating, revealing documentary on the weird life and times of rock climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold. It is nominated for one Oscar for Best Documentary Feature (for Jimmy Chin, […]

Jan, 28

A Patch of Blue **** (1965, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 4704

Writer/ co-producer/ director Guy Green’s 1965 racially-charged weepie drama is well meaning, conscientiously done and appealing. It was significant at the time in its exploration of racism against the backdrop of the growing US civil […]

Nov, 26

Son of Saul [Saul fia] ***** (2015, Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn) – Movie Review

Hungary-born László Nemes’s shatteringly horrific Auschwitz drama Son of Saul [Saul fia] won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the […]

Apr, 28

The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Jul, 28

Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2725

Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama stars Nicolas Cage, who won a Best Actor Oscar as Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic screenwriter who is fired by his Hollywood studio for his drinking, and heads for Las Vegas […]

Jul, 21

Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618

The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]

Jun, 19

Treasure Island *** (1972, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Lionel Stander, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 2061

Orson Welles makes the expected 10-course banquet out of playing the pirate captain Long John Silver, revelling in revealing the murderous rogue’s dark side, in director John Hough’s generally entertaining adventure film. This adaptation was released in several […]

Jan, 09

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