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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ** (1990, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 9727

Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]

May, 07

Les Portes de la Nuit **** (1946, Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 5268

Marcel Carné’s gorgeously atmospheric 1946 French semi-classic film tells a typically doomed love story and is set in the nocturnal, winter Paris of the immediate post-war period. Yves Montand and Raymond Bussières play buddies who […]

Apr, 07

Three Strangers *** (1946, Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 3883

Director Jean Negulesco’s forgotten 1946 film noir crime drama Three Strangers is very welcome as one of the nine pairings of the great screen team of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Also starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, […]

Jun, 19

Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02

Serendipity *** (2001, John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Bridget Moynahan, John Corbett, Eugene Levy, Molly Shannon, Jeremy Piven) – Classic Movie Review 1143

Director Peter Chelsom’s likeable 2001 film stars John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, who play Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas. During the Christmas shopping season in New York City, they meet by chance while trying to buy the […]

Apr, 23

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent **** (2000, Christopher Walken, Vincent Spano, Dave Buzzotta, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 837

Director Patrick Lussier’s welcome 2000 sequel to the 1995 and 1998 hits completes the trilogy in style. Christopher Walken is back again for a third time as the extremely bad and dangerous fallen Archangel Gabriel, continuing […]

Feb, 16

The Adjustment Bureau **** (2011, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 588

Rising US politician David Norris (played by Matt Damon) has a career setback when the press leak an old college-prank scandal – but then he meets English ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) and things […]

Dec, 28

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