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Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] *** (1980, Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner) – Classic Movie Review 9567

Director Dick Lowry’s 1980 TV Movie Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] is a pleasant, good-looking Western, based on a hit song by the country singer Kenny Rogers, about a gambler called Brady Hawkes, […]

Mar, 27

Wild Rose **** (2018, Jessie Buckley, Julia Walters, Craig Parkinson, Sophie Okonedo, Bob Harris) – Movie Review

I really enjoyed Wild Rose. Jessie Buckley and Julia Walters are both great as Rose-Lynn Harlan, a Glasgow musician with dreams of becoming a Nashville country singer star, and her sad and world-weary mum Marion. […]

Apr, 14

I Saw the Light *** (2015, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford) – Movie Review

Writer-director Marc Abraham’s engrossing biopic of the Fifties country-and-western singer Hank Williams chronicles his rise to fame and its damaging effect on his health and personal life, leading to his early death. To find the […]

Mar, 10

Loving You *** (1957, Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart) – Classic Movie Review 2161

Co-writer/director Hal Kanter’s 1957 vehicle for Elvis Presley finds him starring as young hillbilly singer Deke Rivers, who’s changed his name from Jimmy Tompkins. He becomes a teenage sensation after he is hired to boost […]

Feb, 09

Jailhouse Rock **** (1957, Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy) – Classic Movie Review 1,356

Elvis Presley stars as a self-centred but good-hearted bad boy called Vince Everett, the epitome of troubled youth, in the 1957 teen musical film Jailhouse Rock. It caused a scandal because Elvis plays a bad […]

Jun, 25

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