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That’s Life! ** (1986, Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman) – Classic Movie Review 8850

Director Blake Edwards looks at his own life in his 1986 comedy drama That’s Life! and casts Jack Lemmon in the semi-autobiographical Edwards role of Harvey Fairchild, an affluent hypochondriac architect reaching his 60th birthday, […]

Aug, 21

Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] ***** (1951, Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre) – Classic Movie Review 8734

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s austere, hauntingly beautiful 1950 French black and white film Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] tells the tale of a lonely young priest, the Curé de Ambricourt (Claude […]

Jul, 19

The Cardinal *** (1963, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider) – Classic Movie Review 8601

Director Otto Preminger’s colourfully glossy saga of the young Boston priest called Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon), who battles racists at home and Nazis abroad, and then becomes a cardinal, is a big and bumpy experience, […]

Jun, 17

Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] ** (1971, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 8434

Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement […]

May, 05

The Amityville Horror *** (2005, Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols) – Classic Movie Review 8,387

Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George star in the 2005 supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror as young married couple George and Kathy Lutz, who move into a large elegant Long Island house, the site of […]

Apr, 22

Mr Moto Takes a Chance *** (1938, Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 8322

The fourth movie in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable Mr Moto casebook. Director Norman Foster’s 1938 crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Chance is the fourth in the enjoyable casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as […]

Apr, 01

Satan Never Sleeps * (1962, Clifton Webb, William Holden, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8124

Satan Never Sleeps…but you may. Director Leo McCarey bows out on a real low spot in 1962 with this gobsmackingly boring tale about two priests (Clifton Webb as Father Bovard, William Holden as Father O’Banion) […]

Feb, 13

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