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Over the Edge *** (1979, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano) – Classic Movie Review 8223

Matt Dillon makes his movie début at 15, already exuding confidence and charisma as Richie, one of the bored teenage rebels without a cause who play with guns, abuse drink and drugs, and taunt cops, […]

Mar, 10

These Wilder Years ** (1956, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7798

Director Roy Rowland’s 1956 drama These Wilder Years is the only teaming of great stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck, who are very welcome, of course, if alas slightly beyond their prime and not in […]

Nov, 17

The Workshop [L’atelier] **** (2017, Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean) – Movie Review

Marina Foïs stars as middle-aged Paris writer Olivia, who comes to the formerly prosperous, now depressed shipyard town La Ciotat, near Marseilles, one summer to hold a literary workshop for a small group of seven late teenagers […]

Nov, 07

Dangerous Years ** (1947, Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines, Ann E Todd, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7602

Director Arthur Pierson’s modest 1947 youth-oriented B-movie crime drama Dangerous Years stars Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines and Ann E Todd, but, though far from negligible, it is really only remembered because Marilyn Monroe makes her first on screen […]

Sep, 20

The Ciambra [A Ciambra] **** (2017, Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jonas Carpignano’s gritty, penetrating film of the painful coming of age from adolescence to adulthood, set in a small Romani community in Calabria, is really intense and immersive. The Ciambra [A Ciambra] (2017) tells […]

Jun, 13

Peter and Pavla [Cerný Petr] [Black Peter] **** (1964, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil) – Classic Movie Review 7042

Director Milos Forman’s fresh, lively and delightful 1964 Czechoslovak feature debut (after three documentaries) is a satirical comedy drama full of youthful enthusiasm. Ladislav Jakim plays the young shop detective Peter [Petr], who is getting […]

May, 12

Bikini Beach ** (1964, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles, Harvey Lembeck, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6216

In 1964, American International Pictures released Bikini Beach, the third of its Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. It is co-written and directed by William Asher. How is this for blatant advertising: ‘It’s where the […]

Nov, 09

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