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Tetro **** (2009, Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 4735

Writer / producer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s highly impressive 2009 film noir-infused emotional drama stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú and tells the story of the reunion of two brothers. Coppola’s screenplay follows the rivalries arising […]

Jan, 02

Lloyd’s of London *** (1936, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing, Virginia Field, Montagu Love, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 4688

Director Henry King’s 1936 period drama stars Tyrone Power, whose career took off with this role as Lloyd’s insurance boss Jonathan Blake, who, it is alleged, is the friend of Lord Nelson (John Burton). Blake […]

Nov, 23

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street *** (1936, Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 4087

Director George King’s 1936 British horror thriller happily records for posterity Tod Slaughter’s famous barnstorming performance as the 1760s London barber Sweeney Todd in this film version of George Dibdin-Pitt’s play. Before the Stephen Sondheim musical, Slaughter’s turn […]

Jul, 26

Resident Evil: Afterlife ***½ (2010, Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 3971

In that post-apocalyptic world known only to sci-fi writers and movie-makers, Milla Jovovich’s action babe Alice flies to Alaska and finds Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield, from Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). They fly to LA and […]

Jul, 04

Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880

Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]

Jun, 17

China Seas **** (1935, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Hattie McDaniel, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, C Aubrey Smith, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 3688

MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]

May, 10

Dead Calm **** (1989, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane) – Classic Movie Review 3335

Director Phillip Noyce’s brilliant 1989 Australian horror thriller Dead Calm stars Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman as a married couple called John and Rae Ingram, who are trying to recover from the tragic death of their son […]

Feb, 07

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