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Matador *** (1986, Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Carmen Maura) – Classic Movie Review 3563

A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer share a fatal fascination with death, in Pedro Almodóvar’s stylish, provocative, acclaimed 1986 black comedy film Matador. A retired male bullfighter and a smart female lawyer […]

Apr, 13

The Devil Is a Woman ***** (1935, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 3122

Director Josef von Sternberg’s exotically beautiful 1935 romantic drama stars Marlene Dietrich in her last movie partnership with her real-life Svengali-figure. It is based on Pierre Louys’s story of obsessive love, La Femme et Le […]

Dec, 02

The Pride and the Passion *** (1957, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3075

Producer-director Stanley Kramer assembles a big important cast for his costly, professional, but lumbering and misbegotten 1957 film of C S Forester’s novel The Gun about the capture of a huge cannon by a British […]

Nov, 21

Blood and Sand **** (1922, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Lila Lee, Rosa Rosanova) – Classic Movie Review 2996

Producer-director Fred Niblo’s 1922 silent classic Blood and Sand is a splendid showcase for the alluring Rudolph Valentino in one of his most famous roles and finest movies. It was a major hit and is […]

Oct, 19

The Curse of the Werewolf **** (1961, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 2680

Director Terence Fisher’s 1961 British movie The Curse of the Werewolf gives the 23-year-old Oliver Reed his first taste of stardom as the furry fellow in this creepy Hammer horror set in a Technicolored, sinister […]

Jul, 08

Suddenly, Last Summer **** (1959, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) -Classic Movie Review 2613

‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]

Jun, 18

The Gunman ** (2015, Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca) – Movie Review

Sean Penn takes on the Liam Neeson role in this Euro-thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken (2008). But Neeson doesn’t have to worry, he’s still the man. Penn plays Jim Terrier, a mercenary assassination team […]

Mar, 19

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