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La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

Little Fockers *** (2010, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Alba, Blythe Danner, Laura Dern) – Classic Movie Review 4075

Ben Stiller returns as male super-nurse Gaylord Focker, who is tempted by super-sexy drugs rep Jessica Alba, especially when she gets much of her kit off. Nutty ex-CIA father-in-law Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), the family […]

Jul, 24

The Naked Edge ***½ (1961, Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Michael Wilding, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3847

Director Michael Anderson’s tantalising and engrossing 1961 British movie provides Gary Cooper with his final film role. It is an enjoyably convoluted, far-fetched thriller, written by Joseph Stefano, the author of Psycho, adapting Max Ehrlich’s […]

Jun, 11

I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ty Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 3696

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jnr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $175,000 by Paramount. Poor Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new […]

May, 11

The Saint’s Double Trouble *** (1940, George Sanders, Helene Reynolds, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride, John F Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 3223

Director Jack Hively’s 1940 crime thriller The Saint’s Double Trouble is the fourth episode of the RKO Pictures The Saint series, and the third for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, all entirely […]

Jan, 03

Ladies in Lavender **** (2002, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Toby Jones, Geoffrey Bayldon, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2978

Judi Dench and Maggie Smith light up the screen as Thirties Cornish sisters, Ursula and Janet, who take in a foreign lad (Spanish-German star Daniel Brühl) they find washed up on the nearby beach. As […]

Oct, 11

Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818

Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]

Aug, 16

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