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Oliver’s Story ** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 9773

The 1978 Oliver’s Story is the follow-on to the 1970 smash hit Love Story, with Ryan O’Neal back as love-struck Oliver Barrett. Co-screenwriter/ director John Korty’s 1978 romantic drama sequel Oliver’s Story is the largely […]

May, 15

Mystery Train **** (1989, Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Nicoletta Braschi, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 8201

Cult favourite Jim Jarmusch directs the 1989 comedy drama Mystery Train, a portmanteau film of three seemingly unrelated stories that come together satisfyingly in the last reel with the characters linked by a Memphis hotel […]

Mar, 05

Fiend without a Face *** (1958, Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Terry Kilburn, Kim Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8145

‘New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends! …Taking form before your horrified eyes!’ Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1957 British-made, pretend-American black and white horror movie Fiend without a Face is rather fiendish, with a spooky climax, […]

Feb, 18

Rising Damp **½ (1980, Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Don Warrington, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Strauli) – Classic Movie Review 4773

Happily, Leonard Rossiter gleefully re-creates his classic TV performance as the miserly, mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby in director Joe McGrath’s pleasant and amusing 1980 cinema movie version of the hit British TV […]

Dec, 08

Hideous Kinky *** (1998, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui) – Classic Movie Review 1694

Director Gilles MacKinnon’s 1998 drama stars an excellent Kate Winslet, who impresses as Julia, an English hippy mother who in 1972 travels with her two young daughters, 7 and 5, to Morocco. There they have […]

Sep, 20

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