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Duet for One ** (1986, Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6473

Tom Kempinski’s hit play about the violinist struck down by multiple sclerosis makes only a half-successful film in 1986. The half success is the story itself and Julie Andrews’s surprisingly acute performance in the main […]

Dec, 26

Passion Fish **** (1992, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett) – Classic Movie Review 6371

John Sayles won the first of his two Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay so far for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), though arguably Matewan (1987) is still probably Sayles’s best film to date and Piranha (story and screenplay) might be his […]

Dec, 08

Die, Monster, Die! [Monster of Terror] ** (1965, Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 6145

‘It COULD happen! It MAY happen! It MIGHT happen! to YOU!’ Really? I don’t think so! Debut director Daniel Haller’s atmospheric and well acted but slow-moving horror movie is a loose adaptation of the H […]

Oct, 27

Good Time **** (2017, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review

The ironically titled Good Time is an extremely powerful thriller, mega tense and atmospheric. Career best performance (so far) by Robert Pattinson, a revelation, complete with rock solid, very particular American accent. Robert Pattinson and […]

Oct, 06

Burnt Offerings ** (1976, Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 6038

The 1976 American mystery horror film Burnt Offerings is co-written and directed by Dan Curtis, and stars Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith, as yet another American family moves into yet another […]

Sep, 23

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return * (1999, John Franklin, Stacy Keach, Nancy Allen, Natalie Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 5853

John Franklin returns as Isaac from the original 1984 Children of the Corn for director Kari Skogland’s gory, tatty 1999 fifth sequel, in which, on a trip back to her hometown of Gatlin to find her […]

Aug, 04

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife *** (1938, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 5472

The vintage Alfred Savior play is dusted off in 1938 for Claudette Colbert as Nicole De Loiselle, the daughter of a poor French marquis (Edward Everett Horton), who wants to show her much-married American multi-millionaire […]

May, 18

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