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Brother John ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd) – Classic Movie Review 7903
Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Brother John is a pleasant, well-meaning, though peculiar and not too entertaining nor enlightening little fantasy movie, very much of its period. Sidney Poitier stars as Brother John Kane, a […]
Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534
Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]
Do the Right Thing **** (1989, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 6263
Writer-producer-director Spike Lee is back on great form with the hard-hitting, intelligent and entertaining 1989 drama Do the Right Thing that takes an incisive look at a day in the life of a small Brooklyn […]
The Color Purple **** (1985, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey) – Classic Movie Review 5760
For his 1985 movie, producer-director Steven Spielberg looks through rose-coloured glasses at Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel about a young African American woman, separated from her sister, who endures a life of men’s oppression until […]
In the Heat of the Night ***** (1967, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, William Schallert, Lee Grant, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 2,512
Director Norman Jewison’s stupendous 1967 detective thriller In the Heat of the Night showcases Rod Steiger’s storming Oscar-winning performance as racist bigot Southern sheriff Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Sidney Poitier’s distinguished, graceful performance as […]
To Kill a Mockingbird ***** (1962, Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Brock Peters, Mary Badham, Paul Fix, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 65
Thanks to the sensitive yet passionate handling of director Robert Mulligan and his regular producer Alan J Pakula, this triple Oscar-winner is one of those rare enough occasions when a great novel becomes great film. […]
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