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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
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Benny & Joon ** (1993, Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, C C H Pounder, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 10,708
Director Jeremiah Chechik’s 1993 romantic comedy drama Benny & Joon features Aidan Quinn as Spokane garage owner Benny, who looks after his disturbed, mentally challenged young sister Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), who wins dotty, eccentric […]
A Big Hand for the Little Lady **** (1966, Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 9,829
Let’s give a big hand for the entertaining The Sting-style Technicolor comedy Western film A Big Hand for the Little Lady, in which a family of con merchants take on a handful of wealthy gamblers […]
The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380
Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]
Molly’s Game **** (2017, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Chris O’Dowd, Jeremy Strong) – Movie Review
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s truly epic biopic of ‘Poker Princess’ Molly Bloom is a knockout. It is 140 mesmerising screen minutes. Both Sorkin’s screenplay and his star Jessica Chastain as Bloom are nothing short of sensational. Kevin […]
Kaleidoscope *** (1966, Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 6,226
Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to team up with English rose Susannah York for director Jack Smight’s breezy 1966 romantic caper comedy thriller film Kaleidoscope. Warren Beatty came to Swinging Sixties England to […]
California Split **** (1974, George Segal, Elliott Gould, Gwen Welles, Ann Prentiss, Barbara Ruick, Bert Remsen, Jeff Goldblum) – Classic Movie Review 5026
Director Robert Altman’s fine, funny and revealing 1974 comedy character drama stars the very much on-form Elliott Gould and George Segal as wisecracking free spirit Charlie Waters and down on his luck gambler Bill Denny, who are […]
The Virginian *** (1946, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton) – Classic Movie Review 4880
Director Stuart Gilmore’s 1946 Paramount movie is the fourth filming of the famous Owen Wister Western yarn. It lacks some bite in this handling, and Joel McCrea as rancher hero The Virginian and Brian Donlevy […]