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Posts Tagged "screenplay adapted by author"

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Today We Live ** (1933, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 9,757

Director Howard Hawks and co-director Richard Rosson’s 1933 wartime romantic drama Today We Live is a surprisingly low-powered, and now very much dated, movie from MGM studios, considering the high-voltage talent involved. As Ann Boyce-Smith, […]

May, 12

The Guinea Pig [The Outsider] *** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7285

Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]

Jul, 12

Ready Player One *** (2018, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance) – Movie Review

Steven Spielberg takes a fairly weak screen story and bashes all hell into it to make it a spectacular looking CGI-led flashy virtual reality movie, set in 2045, when the virtual world seems better than […]

Mar, 30

Communion *** (1989, Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen) – Classic Movie Review 6,152

The spooky 1989 sci-fi horror film Communion is based on the book by Whitley Strieber, and stars a haunted Christopher Walken as Strieber, facing his alleged real-life encounter with extra-terrestrials.  Director Philippe Mora’s 1989 autobiographical […]

Oct, 29

Fever Pitch ** (1997, Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Luke Aikman, Neil Pearson, Mark Strong) – Classic Movie Review 6073

Debut director David Evans turns Nick Hornby’s best-selling autobiography into a sticky romantic comedy about a man a crazy over a football team and considerably less interested in a woman, set during the 1988-89 football […]

Oct, 10

Wonderstruck **** (2017, Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams) – Movie Review

Director Todd Haynes’s beautiful, magical and enchanting 2017 family mystery drama is a glorious art work as well as a lovely entertainment. In the Seventies, a boy called Ben (Oakes Fegley) is left deaf after […]

Oct, 06

Crossing Delancey **** (1988, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5804

Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a modern single 30-something who lives alone in her smart New York apartment, works in a bookshop and has lots of female friends and a Jewish grandmother who gets the matchmaker […]

Jul, 23

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