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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
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In Custody [Hifazaat] *** (1994, Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Sameer Mitha, Neena Gupta) – Classic Movie Review 6359
Ismail Merchant, lifelong producer of the Merchant-Ivory films, makes his first movie as director, in his intriguing though elusive 1994 film rendition of Anita Desai’s novel. The performances by an ideal cast led by Shashi Kapoor and […]
Ulysses **** (1967, Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 6163
Co-writer/producer/ director Joseph Strick’s superb 1967 British drama is a bold and involving – and admirable – attempt to translate the seemingly unfilmable James Joyce stream-of-consciousness novel to the screen. It is especially notable for […]
The Bad Lord Byron *** (1949, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Linden Travers, Sonia Holm, Mai Zetterling) – Classic Movie Review 6123
Director David MacDonald’s entertaining 1949 historical biopic was originally scorned because it lacks a seriousness of purpose. But now it can be admired as an enjoyable piece of good fun, as well as for its […]
Mother! ** (2017, Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Movie Review
Writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! starts quite well enough, with an intriguing beginning that promises upmarket mystery and chiller excitement, and then improves a lot when classy performers Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer join the movie and it starts […]
Boom! *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 5842
The making of Boom! is a comedy horror story of posh, intelligent people letting their hair down in public. With all the excesses and extravagancies of the Sixties, maybe it is meant to be funny, […]
Shadowlands **** (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison, John Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Julian Fellowes, Peter Firth, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 5757
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s 1993 cinema version of William Nicholson’s TV and stage play is a wonderfully warm-hearted and poignant experience. It won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. there were […]
Hedd Wyn **** (1992, Huw Garmon, Judith Humphreys, Catrin Fychan, Ceri Cunnington) – Classic Movie Review 5439
Co-writer/ director Paul Turner’s 1992 film is the epic true-life tale of World War One Welsh poet Hedd Wyn (his real name was Ellis Evans). This Welsh-language picture, which gained a surprise Academy Award nomination for Best […]