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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
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- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
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The Ring Two **** (2005, Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 2296
Sussex-born, Aussie-raised Naomi Watts returns to her star-making role – journalist Rachel Keller, in director Hideo Nakata’s sleek, super and scary 2005 sequel to the much milder 2002 surprise hit The Ring. It’s six months […]
The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2272
Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and often entertaining but hollow at the centre and painstakingly but mechanically […]
Kafka *** (1991, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey) – Classic Movie Review 2138
Director Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious and intriguing 1991 follow-up to his sensationally successful 1989 worldwide indie hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a murky mystery thriller about author Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) getting caught up in a strange […]
The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2122
Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]
The Pumpkin Eater ***** (1964, Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 2105
Jack Clayton’s 1964 film The Pumpkin Eater is British Sixties film-making perfection. It provides a superb showcase for Anne Bancroft, who won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA […]
The Gambler *** (1997, Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2027
Director Károly Makk’s 1997 film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novella The Gambler stars Michael Gambon as the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jodhi May, Polly Walker and Dominic West as the obsessively addicted gambler Alexei. Its fresh take […]
The Banger Sisters **½ (2002, Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 2013
Writer-director Rob Dolman’s 2002 nostalgic comedy drama has welcome stars in Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as rock groupies Suzette and Vinnie (now known as the serious-minded Lavinia Kingsley), who reconnect after 25 years and go […]