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Diamond Head ** (1962, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, James Darren, France Nuyen, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 11,043
The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]
Watermelon Man ** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine) – Classic Movie Review 9443
Director Melvin Van Peebles’s interesting but undernourished 1970 race relations satirical comedy Watermelon Man stars Godfrey Cambridge as a white, married bigot, suburban insurance agent Jeff Gerber, who turns black overnight through a biological accident. […]
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith **** (1978, Tommy Lewis, Jack Thompson, Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 9308
Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]
The Light in the Forest ** (1958, Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur, Carol Lynley, Jessica Tandy, Joseph Calleia, John McIntire) – Classic Movie Review 8930
Director Herschel Daugherty’s earnest 1958 adventure movie The Light in the Forest tells an unsurprising Disney tale about Johnny Butler, a white boy who is abducted by Indians as a baby and brought up in […]
Blindspotting **** (2018, Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar) – Movie Review
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal write and star in the excellent bristling comedy crime drama Blindspotting as Collin and Miles, a couple of long-time best buddies, working as movers in the rapidly gentrifying Bay Area […]
Sapphire **** (1959, Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5,057
Basil Dearden’s pioneering issue-led 1959 British murder thriller film Sapphire stars Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell and Paul Massie. It won the 1960 BAFTA Film Award for Best British Film. Director Basil Dearden’s pioneering […]
Crash **** (2004, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1749
Co-writer/director Paul Haggis’s serious-minded, low-budget, triple Oscar-winning 2004 movie about race, ethnicity and religion got great reviews and kicked up a storm at the box office. On a $6,500,000 cost, it took $55million in US […]