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Penny Gold * (1973, James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Una Stubbs, Sue Lloyd, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 9186

Director Jack Cardiff’s 1973 Penny Gold has a very friendly cast to recommend it, but it is a creaky old Seventies British thriller about a dead woman’s evil twin sister (Francesca Annis) being involved in a […]

Dec, 23

Woman at War [Kona fer í stríð] **** (2018, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War, Iceland’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards (2018), cheered me up enormously. It is an expertly aimed feel-good movie, delightfully quirky and funny, definitely about something, many things […]

May, 08

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

The Woman in White **** (1948, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Alexis Smith, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2175

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]

Feb, 13

Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10

A Kiss Before Dying ** (1991, Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Diane Ladd, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 1,669

Matt Dillon won praise for the watchable 1991 romantic suspense thriller film A Kiss Before Dying, but poor Sean Young won Golden Raspberry Awards for both Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress!  Sean Young stars […]

Sep, 13

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