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Shadow on the Wall *** (1950, Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8967

Director Pat [Patrick] Jackson’s 1950 MGM black and white B-movie psychological thriller Shadow on the Wall is an involved and involving, if predictable, melodramatic psychodrama, distinguished with an early score by André Previn and smartly […]

Oct, 07

Swiss Family Robinson *** (1940, Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) – Classic Movie Review 6938

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]

Apr, 17

Across the Great Divide ** (1976, Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall) – Classic Movie Review 6452

Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch. […]

Dec, 22

Downtime * (1997, Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper) – Classic Movie Review 4184

Paul McGann plays Rob, an ex-police psychiatrist who tries to talk down depressed young woman Chrissy (Susan Lynch), with five-year-old child Jake (Adam Johnston), from chucking herself off the 21st-storey balcony of a Newcastle upon […]

Aug, 16

Time Lock **** (1957, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, Vincent Winter) – Classic Movie Review 3775

Director Gerald Thomas’s neat little 1957 British black and white B-movie thriller film Time Lock is particularly tense and very satisfying, a first-rate exercise in suspense. Vincent Winter plays a six-year-old boy who is accidentally […]

May, 26

Poltergeist *** (2015, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Jared Harris) – Movie Review

Director Gil Kenan reboots, reimagines and brings up to date Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic tale about a family whose new suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. It’s a sign of the times that in […]

May, 19

Mimic 2 **½ (2001, Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes) – Classic Movie Review 2004

Formulaic but quite creepy and atmospheric 2001 direct-to-DVD sequel to the 1997 chiller hit with none of the original stars. A New York police detective named Det. Klaski (Bruno Campos) suspects that a high school […]

Dec, 28

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