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The Whisperers **** (1967, Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 2423

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s sterling 1967 drama The Whisperers showcases Edith Evans’s extraordinary tour-de-force performance as a neglected English working-class old woman haunted by voices and troubled by her rotten criminal son Charlie (Ronald Fraser) and […]

Apr, 24

Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809

Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]

Nov, 05

Up at the Villa *** (2000, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1709

Director Philip Haas’s beautiful-looking but shaky 2000 romantic drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Scott Thomas plays Mary Panton, a holidaying English widow who faces a series of dramas and choices in 1938 Florence, […]

Sep, 24

Mission: Impossible *** (1996, Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1289

Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]

Jun, 04

Terror by Night *** (1946, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey) – Classic Movie Review 986

‘One Way Ticket to DEATH!’ Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star for the 13th time as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the 1946 mystery thriller film Terror by Night, their penultimate adventure, this time […]

Mar, 25

Gone in Sixty Seconds ***½ (2000, Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 939

Director Dominic Sena’s 2000 action thriller remakes a low-budget cult 1974 movie with a big budget, some flash and zest, and Nicolas Cage starring as legendary master car thief Randall ‘Memphis’ Raines. In Scott Rosenberg’s […]

Mar, 19

Psycho ***** (1960, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Patricia Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Lurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 8

‘Do you have any vacancies?’ ‘Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s once dreaded and despised nail-biting 1960 horror classic Psycho had people boycotting it in fear at the cinema and […]

Jun, 29

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