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Woman of the Year **** (1942, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 3852

Director George Stevens’s intelligent, thoughtful and amusing 1942 romantic comedy stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their first screen partnership that was to last 25 years and produce nine movies. The duo kick up […]

Jun, 13

Meet John Doe ****½ (1941, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 3848

Director Frank Capra’s vintage 1941 drama Meet John Doe stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan. Robert Riskin’s screenplay is based on the story The Life and Death of John Doe by […]

Jun, 11

The Dead Pool ** (1988, Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 3813

Clint Eastwood said: ‘It’s fun, once in a while, to have a character you can go back to. It’s like revisiting an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time. You figure I’ll go […]

Jun, 06

Michael *** (1996, John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Robert Pastorelli) – Classic Movie Review 3741

John Travolta lands a useful tailor-made role as the archangel Michael, with razor stubble, a hairy chest, a flabby gut and wings who drinks, smokes and dances. He comes back to Earth to live in […]

May, 22

I Love Trouble ** (1994, Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 3694

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte star as Chicago newspaper reporter rivals Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett, who, instead of competing, reluctantly link up after a suspicious train crash to investigate the mystery. Co-writer/director Charles Shyer’s […]

May, 10

The Day the Earth Caught Fire **** (1961, Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 3642

‘THE PICTURE THAT GIVES YOU A FRONT SEAT TO THE MOST JOLTING EVENTS OF TOMORROW…TODAY! ‘ Co-writer/director Val Guest’s ambitious 1961 apocalyptic British science fiction disaster drama is commendably exciting and briskly paced as well […]

May, 01

The Band Wagon ***** (1953, Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray) – Classic Movie Review 3637

Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray kick up a sensational storm in writers Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alan Jay Lerner’s superlative MGM Technicolor backstage musical, directed in 1953 by […]

May, 01

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