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The Nun *** (2018, Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet) – Movie Review

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night in the convent with that pesky Nun, in this spin off from the Conjuring universe. Corin Hardy ‘s The Nun (2018) is a silly but […]

Sep, 07

Madonna of the Seven Moons **** (1945, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart, Jean Kent, Dulcie Gray) – Classic Movie Review 6,965

Can we have your attention, please, for ‘The year’s strangest, most absorbing drama!’, the 1945 Gainsborough melodrama film Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Director Arthur Crabtree’s engagingly florid 1944 British movie […]

Apr, 25

Breakheart Pass ** (1975, Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 6780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]

Mar, 09

Donovan’s Reef ** (1963, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Mike Mazurki, Dorothy Lamour, Cesar Romero, Marcel Dalio, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 6770

Ill-health was dogging illustrious action and Westerns film-maker John Ford in 1962 when he directed his buddies John Wayne as war hero Mike ‘Guns’ Donovan and Lee Marvin as Aloysius ‘Boats’ Gilhooley in this 1963 […]

Mar, 06

A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345

Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]

Dec, 02

Amityville II: The Possession ** (1982, James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner) – Classic Movie Review 6200

The Long Island haunted house from 1979’s The Amityville Horror tries to tingle the spines of the Montelli Italian-American family, who make the mistake of moving into the home built on an ancient Indian burial ground, in […]

Nov, 06

The Keys of the Kingdom *** (1944, Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, James Gleason, Edmund Gwenn, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 6125

Gregory Peck is excellent in one of his five Best Actor Oscar nominated performances in director John M Stahl’s 1944 drama. It was nominated for four Oscars, but there were no wins. Running at 137 […]

Oct, 21

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