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Blade Runner 2049 *** (2017, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto) – Movie Review
Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a great looking movie, with amazing visuals and effects. It is thoughtful and intelligent sci-fi action, in the great tradition of the original, though of course, not surprisingly, inferior to […]
Separate Tables **** (1958, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 5970
The double Oscar-winning 1958 black-and-white drama film Separate Tables is a Hollywood version of Terence Rattigan’s renowned pair of one-act plays about the dramas of guests at an English south coast resort hotel. Director Delbert […]
My Left Foot **** (1989, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Conor, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 5541
Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won the 1990 Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for their outstanding, heart-rending performances as Christy Brown and his mother Mrs Brown, in Jim Sheridan’s inspiring 1989 biopic of […]
Tender Mercies **** (1983, Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 5399
Director Bruce Beresford’s rousing 1983 drama swept Robert Duvall to a Best Actor Oscar and Horton Foote to a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. Duvall is superb as the alcoholic, once-famous country singer songwriter Mac […]
The Big House **** (1930, Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 5346
Author Frances Marion won the Academy Award for writing the story and dialogue (Best Writing Achievement) of director George Hill’s convincing, mould-forming 1930 prison drama. Sound director Douglas Shearer also won the first Academy Award […]
The Fighter ***½ (2010, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Yeo) – Classic Movie Review 4617
Boxing movies are a dime a dozen – and there have of course been great ones, from Champion and Rocky to Raging Bull and more recently Ali, Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man. Director David O […]
The Yearling **** (1946, Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr, Chill Wills, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Henry Travers, Forrest Tucker, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 3966
Director Clarence Brown’s vintage, huge five-hankie 1946 family weepie is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s classic 1938 novel. Claude Jarman Jnr was awarded a miniature special Oscar on Academy Awards night for his deeply affecting […]