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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
- The Astronaut Lovers [Los Amantes Astronautas] *** (2024, Javier Orán, Lautaro Bettoni, Ailín Salas) – Classic Movie Review 13,205
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Bright Star *** (2009, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Edie Martin, Thomas Brodie-Sangster) – Classic Movie Review 2940
This worthy but dull 2009 fictional romantic biopic is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. The acting, though, is inspiring. Ben Whishaw […]
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 […]
Doctor Zhivago ***** (1965, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2692
Director David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the horrors of the Russian revolution and […]
Suddenly, Last Summer **** (1959, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) -Classic Movie Review 2613
‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]
Il Postino [The Postman] **** (1994, Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta) – Classic Movie Review 2542
Director Michael Radford’s beautifully filmed 1994 romance stars Philippe Noiret as great, famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. This causes a huge increase in mail […]
Possession ** (2002, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1,713
Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama film Possession stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart, and is based on the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel by British author A S Byatt. Co-writer/ director Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama […]
Sylvia ** (2003, Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 1711
Director Christine Jeffs’s 2003 film examines the painful, depressingly sad true story of married poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, with all the little and large events of their troubled lives unfortunately underlined with horribly […]