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Sublet **** (2020, John Benjamin Hickey, Niv Nissim, Lihi Kornowski, Miki Kam, Peter Spears)

Director Eytan Fox’s 2020 emotionally powerful, thoroughly likeable and appealing romantic comedy drama Sublet stars John Benjamin Hickey as a gay middle-aged New York Times travel writer, Michael, who comes to Tel Aviv for research […]

Mar, 23

The Whole Wide World **** (1996, Vincent D’Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 10,795

Director Dan Ireland’s 1996 biographical film The Whole Wide World is an intriguing and excellently done real-life 1930s Texas-set drama exploring the relationship between pulp-fiction author Robert E Howard (Vincent D’Onofrio), creator of the comic-strip […]

Jan, 16

Tough Guys Don’t Dance ** (1987, Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Stipe) – Classic Movie Review 10,757

In difficult circumstances, Ryan O’Neal does well as a blacking-out alcoholic writer, 40-something ex-con Tim Madden, who may have killed during a drunken bender, in this wobbly but always intriguing 1987 movie Tough Guys Don’t […]

Jan, 06

The Sun Also Rises *** (1957, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Robert Evans, Juliette Greco) – Classic Movie Review 10,000

A fine cast distinguishes director Henry King’s 1957 film The Sun Also Rises, 20th Century Fox’s CinemaScope, Deluxe Color version of Ernest Hemingway’s story of a ‘lost generation’ of 1920’s American ex-patriates living in Paris. […]

Jul, 04

Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] * (1970, Charles Bronson, Susan George, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Lionel Jeffries, Kay Medford, Paul Ford, Orson Bean, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 9868

Director Richard Donner’s 1970 sex comedy drama Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] stars Charles Bronson as dissipated middle-aged porn novel writer Scott Wardman, who has a Swinging Sixties fling with London teenager Twinky (Susan George). She’s […]

Jun, 05

Frankie Starlight **** (1995, Corban Walker, Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne, Matt Dillon, Niall Toibin) – Classic Movie Review 9617

Frankie Bois (Corban Walker) pens his life story in director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s delicious 1995 heartwarmer Frankie Starlight, an adaptation of Chet Raymo’s novel The Dork of Cork. As his mother Bernadette (Anne Parillaud) brings up […]

Apr, 08

Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1935, Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 9211

Directors William Hamilton and Edward Killy’s 1935 mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the fifth of nine versions of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a mystery writer, William Magee (played by Gene […]

Jan, 01

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