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Ikiru ***** (1952, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Kamatari Fujiwara, Makoto Koburi) – Classic Movie Review 11,777

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 black and white Japanese masterwork Ikiru [Living] [Doomed] is a gloomy but extremely affecting portrait of Japanese society through the story of an obscure old civil servant who finds he has […]

Dec, 08

The Earthling ** (1980, William Holden, Ricky Schroder, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 11,721

Director Peter Collinson’s well meaning but gloomy and maudlin 1980 American-Australian adventure drama film The Earthling was filmed in Australia in 1979 and stars William Holden, Ricky Schroder and Jack Thompson. Holden plays an old […]

Nov, 12

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

Ordinary Love ***** (2019, Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Amit Shah) – Movie Review

Lesley Manville is an absolute knockout as middle-aged English wife Joan, battling her breast cancer diagnosis, in the extraordinary 2019 drama Ordinary Love. Liam Neeson is tremendous in deeply loyal support of Manville, just as […]

Mar, 10

The Doctor *** (1991, William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy) – Classic Movie Review 8773

Director Randa Haines’s polished 1992 drama The Doctor stars William Hurt as rich, uncaring, selfish San Francisco surgeon Dr Jack MacKee (favourite phrase ‘get in and get out’), who finds that he too is faced […]

Jul, 30

Hawks *** (1988, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards, Janet McTeer) – Classic Movie Review 8466

Apparently, in life, people are either hawks or pigeons. Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1988 comedy drama Hawks stars Timothy Dalton, in between his Bond films The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, and Anthony Edwards. […]

May, 14

No Sad Songs for Me *** (1950, Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 7950

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1950 drama No Sad Songs for Me is Margaret Sullavan’s swansong in the movies. It is aptly the story of a terminally ill mother, Mary Scott (Sullavan), who will not tell her […]

Dec, 28

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