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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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L’Homme du Train [Man on the Train] **** (2002, Johnny Hallyday, Jean Rochefort, Jean-François Stévenin) – Classic Movie Review 6729
‘Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.’ Director Patrice Leconte’s deliciously quirky and richly enjoyably 2002 French thriller presents the irresistibly attractive prospect […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mirror [Zerkalo] ***** (1975, Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev) – Classic Movie Review 3568
Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1975 kaleidoscope of personal imagery has a strong, poetic and characteristic use of the elements and images – the wind constantly moving the tall grasses, the burning barn, the flooded room, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pandaemonium *** (Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof) – Classic Movie Review 1699
Director Julien Temple is in his element in this imaginative and worthwhile 2000 British biographical drama as Frank Cottrell Boyce’s intelligent screenplay tells of youthful friendship and betrayal between two world famous poets at the […]