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The Paper Chase ***** (1973, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman) – Classic Movie Review 4030

James Bridges’s 1973 drama film The Paper Chase showcases legendary film producer John Houseman’s finest hour as an actor, in a role that brought him an Oscar. Writer-director James Bridges’s 1973 American comedy-drama film The Paper […]

Jul, 16

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie *** (1969, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 4,020

Maggie Smith won the 1970 Best Actress Oscar for her delightful playing of the headstrong Thirties Edinburgh schoolmarm Jean Brodie, in the enjoyable 1969 drama film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. When she was […]

Jul, 14

The Browning Version **** (1951, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde White, Bill Travers, Ronald Howard, Peter Jones, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4,012

Anthony Asquith’s 1951 British drama film The Browning Version is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan and stars Michael Redgrave as an ageing classics master at an English public school forced into retirement […]

Jul, 13

Easy A *** (2010, Emma Stone, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Thomas Haden Church, Amanda Bynes, Dan Byrd) – Classic Movie Review 3831

Likeable Emma Stone scores an easy A in director Will Gluck’s funny, enjoyable 2010 teen comedy as a nice high-school student who becomes notorious after fibbing about losing her virginity. She thinks she’s like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet […]

Jun, 09

Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

Blood of Dracula [Blood Is My Heritage] * (1957, Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley) – Classic Movie Review 3.699

Sandra Harrison stars as a schoolgirl who turns into a vampire under hypnosis, in Herbert L Strock’s 1957 horror movie Blood of Dracula. ‘She Will GIVE YOU Nightmares… FOR EVER!’ Director Herbert L Strock’s 1957 […]

May, 11

Bande à Part [Band of Outsiders] *** (1964, Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Danièle Girard) – Classic Movie Review 3638

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s relatively low-scoring 1964 French New Wave thriller has cult chic status and lively stars in Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey as petty crooks living out their fantasies of planning a […]

May, 01

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