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Safe *** (1995, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1530

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]

Aug, 09

The Stepford Wives **** (1974, Katharine Ross, Patrick O’Neal, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman) – Classic Movie Review 1383

Adapted for the screen by expert William Goldman, Ira Levin’s chilling thriller novel emerges smoothed out and tamed down in British director Bryan Forbes’s 1974 film. But it’s still an excellent, richly satisfying movie full of […]

Jul, 01

The Prince of Tides ***½ (1991, Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Jason Gould, Jeroen Krabbé, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Melinda Dillon, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 1303

Producer-director-star Barbra Streisand’s troubled 1991 romance is an infuriating half-success of a movie, with enough good stuff to make it attractive and appealing, but also enough to suggest the much better movie it could have been. […]

Jun, 07

What Women Want (2000, Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt) Classic Film Review 1140

Director Nancy Myers’s 2000 romcom stars Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, a womanising Chicago advertising executive who gains the ability to hear the thoughts of the fairer sex after a freak accident, when a woman, Darcy […]

Apr, 23

K-Pax 2001 (Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Film Review 1107

Director Iain Softley’s 2001 film stars Kevin Spacey, who is ideal as Prot, a mysterious, other-worldly patient in a New York psychiatric hospital who claims to be an alien from the planet K-Pax. What’s odder […]

Apr, 18

House on Haunted Hill *** (1958, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Julie Mitchum, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 1,090

William Castle’s fondly regarded 1958 black and white horror movie House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as an eccentric millionaire who invites five people for a haunted house party. Whoever spends the whole night there […]

Apr, 13

Glen or Glenda (1953, Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 12

Edward D Wood Jr, the notorious director of the legendarily awful Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956), comes up with a double so-bad-it’s-good whammy with his equally hysterically inept 1953 melodrama about transvestism, Glen or […]

Mar, 27

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