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Under Fire ****½ (1983, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 10,303

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s sizzling 1983 Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as newsmen Alex Grazier and […]

Sep, 14

Bananas **** (1971, Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán) – Classic Movie Review 10,295

Director/ co-writer Woody Allen’s 1971 political satire comedy Bananas is rough but ready for raising lots of laughs. Allen also stars as New York milksop consumer products tester Fielding Mellish, who runs off to San […]

Sep, 12

We the Living [Noi Vivi] **** (1942, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 10,260

Director Goffredo Alessandrini’s 1942 Italian romantic war film We the Living [Noi Vivi] stars Alida Valli and Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti, who give outstanding performances in this tale of the difficult web of relationships […]

Sep, 03

Marie Antoinette **** (1938, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9901

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]

Jun, 13

The Balcony *** (1963, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9209

Director Joseph Strick’s 1963 satirical drama The Balcony is a strongly cast low-budget movie of the Jean Genet theatre shocker, with Shelley Winters as Madame Irma, the madam of a brothel, Peter Falk as her […]

Dec, 31

Cuba *** (1979, Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam) -Classic Movie Review 8944

Director Richard Lester’s 1979 adventure Cuba stars Sean Connery as retired British army Major Robert Dapes, a mercenary who comes to Havana to serve as a military training adviser to the crumbling regime of General […]

Sep, 27

Death in the Garden [La mort en ce jardin] **** (1956, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 8835

This Luis Buñuel rarity is a colourful adventure thriller set in Mexico, where a motley group of French people – a bad boy adventurer [Shark], a priest [Father Lizardi], a prostitute [Djin], an old diamond […]

Aug, 16

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