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The Curse of the Cat People **** (1944, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter) – Classic Movie Review 2762

Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]

Jul, 31

Washington Square **** (1996, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith) – Classic Movie Review 2447

Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]

May, 02

Sudden Fear **** (1952, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2,088

Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully as a woman who marries a murderous man, in the twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller Sudden Fear. Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully in the twisty […]

Jan, 18

The Salton Sea *** (2002, Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1625

Director D J Caruso’s gritty and exciting 2002 all-star thriller stars Val Kilmer as Danny Parker, who adopts a new lowlife identity and goes among drug pushers and crooks to find his beloved wife’s killers. […]

Sep, 02

Carry On Cleo **** (1964, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Amanda Barrie, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor) – Classic Film Review 1133

In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]

Apr, 21

Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] **** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley) – Classic Movie Review 776

Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]

Jan, 31

Little Women **** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Eric Stoltz, Mary Wickes, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 419

After several previous famous movie versions, notably the 1933 Little Women with Katharine Hepburn and the 1949 Little Women with Elizabeth Taylor, this is a most attractive, appealing and beautiful-looking 1994 version of Louisa May […]

Nov, 17

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