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The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

Joan of Arc ** (1999, Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, John Malkovich, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4806

Director Luc Besson remakes the story famous story about the French farm girl turned great martyr of Orleans in 15th century France, which provided a turgid 1948 vehicle for Ingrid Bergman, also called Joan of […]

Dec, 22

The Purge: Election Year ** (2016, Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson) – Movie Review

Frank Grillo returns as the Sergeant, Leo Barnes, from The Purge: Anarchy (2014) in this scrappy third Purge movie, each film weaker than its predecessor, after the excellent original The Purge (2013). Returning writer-director James DeMonaco does what he can to make it seem […]

Sep, 04

The Hunchback of Notre Dame *** (1982, Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Robert Powell, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 2667

Taking a trick or two out of Charles Laughton’s book, Anthony Hopkins greatly impresses as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo in director Michael Tuchner’s lavish, starry and highly entertaining 1982 British-based TV movie […]

Jul, 05

The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame de Paris] *** (1956, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2666

Anthony Quinn (as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo) and Gina Lollobrigida (as the gypsy dancing girl Esmeralda whom he silently loves) light up Jean Delannoy’s 1956 French version of the Victor Hugo classic […]

Jul, 05

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