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Morning Glory ***½ (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 3420

Director Lowell Sherman’s 1933 romantic drama stars the 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn, who won her first Oscar as Eva Lovelace, a starry-eyed, naively innocent, aspiring actress who arrives in Manhattan as a Broadway babe trying to be […]

Feb, 27

Scream 2 **** (1997, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Jada Pinkett, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2830

Two years after the slasher maniac went on a killing spree in the American suburban town called Woodsboro, the survivors of Scream (1996) are back for a second bout of expert terror, as cash-in film-makers […]

Aug, 18

The Little Foxes ***** (1941, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 2706

In one of her most popular movies, double Oscar-winner Bette Davis landed another Oscar nomination for her cold, calculating and conniving Southern belle character Regina Giddens, who does terrible things to her estranged husband Horace […]

Jul, 19

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

The Gallows * (2015, Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Cassidy Gifford) – Movie Review

Shot in Fresno, California, this horror movie about a cursed high school theatre production is enterprisingly made on a small budget. Playing like an eager-to-scare amateur student film, it was independently funded and produced before being […]

Jul, 15

She’s Funny That Way *** (2014, Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Rhys Ifans, Will Forte) – Movie Review

Peter Bogdanovich’s 2014 screwball comedy She’s Funny That Way proved his last film before his death in January 2022. It stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston. The 74-year Peter Bogdanovich had not directed a […]

Jun, 25

Clouds of Sils Maria ***** (2014, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz) – Movie Review

Juliette Binoche is on commanding form as Maria Enders, a fading veteran star actress who reluctantly agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier. Back then Maria […]

May, 12

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