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Terror Train *** (1980, Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner) – Classic Movie Review 10,624

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s debut is the 1980 Canadian horror thriller Terror Train, a cultish, above-average stalk and slash movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis – then the cinema’s best screamer since Fay Wray – as one […]

Dec, 03

Abigail’s Party ***** (1977, Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse, Harriet Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 10,580

The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]

Nov, 25

The Night of the Party ** (1935, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Jane Baxter, Ernest Thesiger, Malcolm Keen, Viola Keats) – Classic Movie Review 10,461

Director Michael Powell’s 1935 British black and white crime mystery thriller The Night of the Party is an intriguing, lightly amusing and involving if creaky and contrived early Powell film with a good cast and […]

Oct, 26

The Party’s Over ** (1965, Oliver Reed, Clifford David, Ann Lynn, Louise Sorel, Katherine Woodville, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 10,415

Director Guy Hamilton’s 1965 black and white drama The Party’s Over is a now faded and tame, perhaps rather offensive and daft-seeming exposé of London beatnik culture, which means well and has its positive side, […]

Oct, 14

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College * (1990, Evan MacKenzie, Kevin McCarthy, Eva LaRue) – Classic Movie Review 10,325

Director John Carl Buechler’s 1990 film Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College stars Kevin McCarthy as Professor Ragnar, a college teacher who calls the nasty little monsters to campus to deal with unruly gangs in […]

Sep, 19

The Hard Way *** (1943, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 10,213

Director Vincent Sherman’s attractive 1943 backstage yarn The Hard Way stars Ida Lupino as ambitious steel-town gal Helen Chernen, who boosts her younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with music man Albert Runkel (Jack […]

Aug, 22

For the Love of Ada ** (1972, Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst, Arthur English) – Classic Movie Review 10,015

Director Ronnie Baxter’s 1972 senior citizens comedy For the Love of Ada is a warm-hearted but fairly feeble TV spin-off film, which tries to open out an already fairly feeble TV series that entirely motors […]

Jul, 08

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