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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane **** (1976, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Scott Jacoby) – Classic Movie Review 8643

Director Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a dark, taut, extremely well-done Grand Guignol suspense thriller, teetering on the edge of bad taste. Jodie Foster stars as the 13-year-old […]

Jun, 26

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm *** (1938, Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Bill Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 6604

The 20th Century Fox studio radically changes the Kate Douglas Wiggin story as a musical-comedy-drama vehicle for its child star Shirley Temple as Rebecca Winstead, whose uncle, Henry Kipper (William Demarest), dumps her on her strict […]

Jan, 26

The Yearling **** (1946, Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr, Chill Wills, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly, Henry Travers, Forrest Tucker, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 3966

Director Clarence Brown’s vintage, huge five-hankie 1946 family weepie is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s classic 1938 novel. Claude Jarman Jnr was awarded a miniature special Oscar on Academy Awards night for his deeply affecting […]

Jul, 03

The Window **** (1949, Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 3714

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s engrossing and impeccably handled 1949 film noir thriller The Window stars Bobby Driscoll, as a mischievous lad called Tommy who is prone to crying wolf. One hot summer night, he tells his […]

May, 16

Maps to the Stars **** (2014, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson) – Movie Review

The 71-year-old director David Cronenberg’s run of success continues with this typically dark and twisted satire and thriller, lifting off the lid of Hollywood. One of its stars, John Cusack, says that Hollywood is a […]

Sep, 26

Home Alone **** (1990, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 554

The 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin turns on the ingratiating charm as Kevin McCallister, a cute but cheeky, rowdy and rumbustious eight-year-old, in writer-producer John Hughes’s 1990 mega-moneymaker Home Alone. It has a simple but very effective, […]

Dec, 20

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ***** (1962, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 339

Joan Crawford: ‘You wouldn’t be able to do these awful things to me if I weren’t still in this [wheel]chair.’ Bette Davis: ‘Butcha ARE, Blanche, ya ARE !’ Finally together on screen, lifetime Hollywood arch-rivals […]

Jun, 18

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