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*batteries not included **** (1987, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña, Frank McRae) – Classic Movie Review 2002

Co-writer/director Matthew Robbins’s thoughtful, likeable and appealing, 1987 sci-fi comedy drama stars veteran married couple Hume Cronyn (aged 76) and Jessica Tandy (aged 78) as beleaguered New York City old-timers, diner owner Frank Riley and […]

Dec, 28

Serena *** (2014, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Toby Jones) – Movie Review

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are ideally teamed and perfectly cast in this ambitious romantic Western, set in late-1920s Depression-era North Carolina, but filmed in the Czech Republic. And filmed very beautifully. It’s a costly-looking, incredibly handsome, […]

Nov, 08

A Kind of Loving **** (1962, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 1482

‘You know, it’s a funny feeling. Sometimes I really fancy her, and the next day I can hardly stand the sight of her.’ – Vic Brown (Alan Bates). Director John Schlesinger’s gifted 1962 film A […]

Jul, 27

Johnny Belinda **** (1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 1353

Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]

Jun, 24

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332

‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]

Jun, 17

This Sweet Sickness [Dites-lui que je l’aime] **** (1977, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Claude Piéplu, Dominique Laffin) – Classic Movie Review 188

Gérard Depardieu stars as a dangerously disturbed young accountant in the 1977 French psychological thriller This Sweet Sickness [Dites-lui que je l’aime], a mesmerising study in obsession, sickness and despair adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. […]

Aug, 25

Thérèse Desqueyroux **** (2012, Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi, Isabelle Sadoyan) – Movie Review

Made while he was already ill with cancer, the late Claude Miller never puts a foot wrong in his last film, an exquisitely done adaptation of the 1927 tragic novel by François Mauriac. Boldly and […]

Jun, 05

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