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Skylark **** (1941, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6813

Director Mark Sandrich’s bubbly 1941 romantic comedy stars on-form players Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne, and is a vintage delight. [Spoiler alert] Colbert plays Lydia Kenyon, a fed-up wife married to Tony Kenyon […]

Mar, 17

The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

Side Street **** (1949, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen) – Classic Movie Review 5262

Director Anthony Mann’s sterling 1949 film noir crime drama is a memorable rematch for Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell, the two sweet young stars of They Live by Night (1948). Granger plays downtrodden post clerk Joe […]

Apr, 07

Le Bonheur [Happiness] **** (1965, Jean-Claude Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Claire Drouot) – Classic Movie Review 4307

Agnès Varda’s 1965 French film Le Bonheur [Happiness] tells the story of a happy carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a wife (Claire Drouot) and a mistress (Marie-France Boyer), both of whom he loves. Writer-director Agnès Varda’s […]

Sep, 05

Up the Sandbox *** (1972, Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Stockard Channing, Paul Dooley, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 4,074

The awkward but ambitious 1972 comedy-drama film Up the Sandbox stars Barbra Streisand as a pregnant New Yorker, who feels bored with her life and neglected by her husband (David Selby), and takes to fantasising, […]

Jul, 24

De-Lovely *** (2004, Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Allan Corduner, Peter Polycarpou, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3089

Kevin Kline stars as gay composer Cole Porter, who reviews his career and life with his understanding wife, Linda (Ashley Judd) in director Irwin Winkler’s dramatically intriguing, highly tuneful musical biopic. Both stars give supremely stylish […]

Nov, 24

Good Kill **** (2014, Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke stars as Tom Egan, a Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot who fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds with his […]

Apr, 09

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