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Rampage ***½ (2018, Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy) – Movie Review

Director Brad Peyton’s monster movie Rampage is daft and disposable but likeable, fast paced, dynamic and a lot of fun, with good effects and a strong score (Andrew Lockington), and a winning central turn by […]

Apr, 13 · in Reviews

Darby O’Gill and the Little People **** (1959, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O’Dea, Kieron Moore, Estelle Winwood, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O’Dea) – Classic Movie Review 6916

Disney’s superlative 1959 children’s film Darby O’Gill and the Little People is an often inspired mix of warm Irish charm and sly Gaelic hokum. Cubby Broccoli saw and liked Sean Connery in this movie and […]

Apr, 13 · in Reviews

Illustrious Corpses [Cadaveri Eccellenti] **** (1976, Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Max von Sydow, Fernando Rey, Charles Vanel, Tina Aumont) – Classic Movie Review 6915

Lino Ventura gives astonishingly powerful performance as Inspector Amerigo Rogas, the tenacious police detective on the case of the mysterious murders of some Italian Supreme Court judges, in director Francesco Rosi’s illustrious 1975 Italian political […]

Apr, 12

Dead End **** (1937, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop) – Classic Movie Review 6914

Billy Halop was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley’s play Dead End and got the call to go to Hollywood with the rest of the young actors playing the Dead End […]

Apr, 12

Daisy Miller ** (1974, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6913

Cybill Shepherd stars as the Henry James heroine Daisy Miller in producer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s classy and sumptuous period romantic comedy drama of manners. If it has its charms, certainly visually, it can nevertheless still seem […]

Apr, 11

Town Without Pity [Stadt ohne Mitleid] **** (1961, Kirk Douglas, E G Marshall, Christine Kaufmann) – Classic Movie Review 6912

The 1961 drama Town Without Pity (German: Stadt ohne Mitleid) tells the story of the court case against four GIs – Sergeant Chuck Snyder (Frank Sutton), Corporal Birdwell Scott (Richard Jaeckel), Private Joey Haines (Mal Sondock), […]

Apr, 11

The Last Sunset **** (1961, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Carol Lynley, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 6911

The incest theme and some fine performances from a top cast help to lift director Robert Aldrich’s weird, well-crafted, over-the-top 1961 Western way out of the rut. Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Carol Lynley, […]

Apr, 11

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