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Dangerous **** (1935, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 2697

Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 drama Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, highly mannered, but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar for this portrayal here. She […]

Jul, 14

La Ciociara [Two Women] **** (1961, Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2361

Co-writer/director Vittorio De Sica’s vintage 1961 drama stars Sophia Loren who won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force. Speaking in her native Italian, Loren […]

Apr, 05

Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270

John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]

Mar, 15

Coming Home ***** (1978, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty) – Classic Movie Review 2053

Director Hal Ashby’s high-impact, liberal-minded, issue-led 1978 triple Oscar-winning classic triumphed at the Academy Awards. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress as Luke Martin, a bitter, wheelchair-bound Vietnam […]

Jan, 06

Still Alice **** (2014, Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth) – Movie Review

Still Alice is a devastating heart-tugger and guaranteed weepie. Julianne Moore is brilliant in a demanding and challenging role as Dr Alice Howland, a 50-year-old renowned linguistics professor struck down with rare congenital, early-onset Alzheimer’s. […]

Dec, 10

Room at the Top **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1483

Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]

Jul, 27

Johnny Belinda **** (1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 1353

Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]

Jun, 24

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