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The Shop at Sly Corner *** (1947, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8482

Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]

May, 18

A Perfect Couple **** (1979, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis) – Classic Movie Review 7535

Director Robert Altman’s zany 1979 romantic comedy A Perfect Couple is appealing and effervescent movie, in which the repressed, middle-aged, divorced Greek-American cook/ antique dealer Alex Theodopoulos (Paul Dooley) is computer-dated with much younger rock […]

Sep, 03

Do Not Disturb ** (1965, Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Sergio Fantoni, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Gardiner, Maura McGiveney) – Classic Movie Review 6078

Director Ralph Levy’s fairly daft but bright enough 1965 farcical comedy of gentle misunderstandings successfully teams Doris Day with Rod Taylor. Based on William Fairchild’s play Some Other Love, it is a frothy marital mix-ups comedy […]

Oct, 11

From Beyond the Grave **** (1974, Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton, Ian Carmichael, Donald Pleasence, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ian Ogilvy) – Classic Movie Review 3987

Director Kevin Connor’s 1973 spooky, lively and satisfying Amicus horror anthology movie of chilling stories is set round a London antiques shop called Temptations Limited. There its mysterious owner, The Proprietor (Peter Cushing), puts his customers […]

Jul, 08

Cronos ***½ (1993, Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2005

Guillermo del Toro’s eerie, imaginative and atmospheric 1993 Mexican horror movie centres on an extraordinary, mysterious mechanism encapsulated into a small, bug-like golden device, designed and built by an alchemist in 1535 to provide its […]

Dec, 28

Paddington **** (2014, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

Michael Bond‘s beloved talking bear Paddington finds his right voice in Ben Whishaw and his right adoptive parents in Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins. They play the kindly middle-class parents Mr and Mrs Brown, who discover […]

Nov, 26

Dracula 2000 ** (2000, Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 1731

Christopher Plummer brings a touch of class to this modern-day vampire flick as Abraham Van Helsing, who keeps Dracula (Gerard Butler) in a coffin that’s stolen by gang of thieves, who break into a chamber expecting […]

Oct, 02

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