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Gentleman’s Agreement **** (1947, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, Dean Stockwell, Jane Wyatt, June Havoc, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 4472

Director Elia Kazan’s first film concerned with personal and social issues was his 1947 triple Oscar-winning film dealing with anti-Semitism in America. It won the Best Picture and Best Director awards and was as successful as […]

Oct, 15

Pool of London ***½ (1951, Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 4399

Director Basil Dearden’s vintage 1951 British black and white crime thriller Pool of London stars Earl Cameron as Johnny Lambert, a basically honest Jamaican seaman who gets up to his ears in his thieving American […]

Sep, 23

This Is England ***** (2006, Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Jack O’Connell, Joseph Gilgun, Kieran Hardcastle, Andrew Shim) – Classic Movie Review 3724

This Is England is, arguably, writer-director Shane Meadows’s chillingly realistic 2006 masterpiece. It features an astounding performance by Thomas Turgoose (aged 14) as Shaun, a 12-year-old English boy who becomes friends with bitter, racist, psychotic Combo (Stephen Graham) and a […]

May, 20

Inglourious Basterds ***** (2009, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 3445

Quentin Tarantino worked on his script for this action thriller for a decade, with a working title of Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France that reflects its curious mix of war film and spaghetti […]

Mar, 03

Othello [Отелло] **** (1956, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov) – Classic Movie Review 3342

Director Sergei Yutkevich’s imaginatively filmed, handsome looking, intellectually minded 1956 Russian version of the play by William Shakespeare is the first in colour and stars the great Sergei Bondarchuk, who goes the route of playing […]

Feb, 08

Men of Honor **** (2000, Cuba Gooding Jr, Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron) – Classic Movie Review 2303

Director George Tillman Jr’s 2000 drama stars Cuba Gooding Jr as the real-life hero Carl Brashear, who comes up against tough, embittered US Navy Dive School instructor Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) and a load […]

Mar, 22

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 […]

Oct, 06

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