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The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27

Tom & Viv *** (1994, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 9027

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1994 British biographical romantic drama Tom & Viv tells the extraordinary story of the doomed marriage of American poet Tom Eliot [T S Eliot] (Willem Dafoe) and the English aristocrat Vivienne Haigh-Wood […]

Oct, 29

Girl with Green Eyes **** (1964, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave) Classic Movie Review 8839

Rita Tushingham stars as Kate, a plain lonely girl with green eyes, who is sharing digs in Dublin’s fair city with her vivacious friend Baba (Lynn Redgrave), when she meets and falls for middle-aged, married […]

Aug, 17

Cross Creek **** (1983, Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 8691

Director Martin Ritt’s 1983 Cross Creek tells the story of a real-life writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, who in 1926 left her husband and home in the big city to start a […]

Jul, 10

Bright Lights, Big City ** (1988, Michael J Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Frances Sternhagen, Dianne Wiest, John Houseman, Jason Robards, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 8419

Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]

May, 01

Closet Land *** (1991, Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 8411

The 1991 political thriller Closet Land stars Alan Rickman as a cultured but sadistic secret policeman inquisator (the (Interrogator) who tries to extort information out of his blindfolded victim, the supposedly subversive children’s writer (the […]

Apr, 29

Stallion Road ** (1947, Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott) – Classic Movie Review 8375

Directors James V Kern and Raoul Walsh (uncredited)’s 1947 black and white love triangle movie Stallion Road is a very mundane and average Forties horse saga, in which a vet (veterinarian) called Larry Hanrahan (Ronald […]

Apr, 17

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