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The Age of Innocence ** (1934, Irene Dunne, John Boles, Lionel Atwill, Laura Hope Crews, Helen Westley, Julie Haydon) – Classic Movie Review 12,527

RKO’s 1934 film The Age of Innocence is an intriguing but rather unpersuasive Victorian romantic melodrama taken from Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic 1920 novel, remade by Martin Scorsese in 1993. Director Philip Moeller’s 1934 […]

Jun, 02

Tortilla Soup *** (2001, Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Peña, Jaqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 10,759

Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]

Jan, 06

Abigail’s Party ***** (1977, Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse, Harriet Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 10,580

The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]

Nov, 25

The Hearse * (1980, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux) – Classic Movie Review 9952

Director George Bowers’s 1980 film The Hearse stars Trish Van Devere as San Francisco schoolteacher Jane Hardy, who for the summer moves into an old house inherited from her deceased devil worshipper aunt in the […]

Jun, 23

The Boogie Man Will Get You ***½ (1942, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 5642

‘From HORROR To HOWLS… FROM MAYHEM TO MERRIMENT!’ ‘IT’S A CHILLER-DILLER OF A MAYHEM-AND-MERRIMENT SHOW!’ Director Lew Landers’s 1944 comedy horror movie The Boogie Man Will Get You stars Boris Karloff as nutty Professor Nathaniel […]

Jun, 20

House Calls **** (1978, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 5,395

Director Howard Zieff’s 1978 screwball comedy film House Calls stars Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, who make an unlikely but delightful romantic comedy team, in this funny doctoring satire set against a hospital background. Matthau […]

May, 05

The Age of Innocence *** (1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes) – Classic Movie Review 5,280

Martin Scorsese’s reverent, faithful film of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence follows the fortunes of society lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder) but drawn to Countess Olenska […]

Apr, 12

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