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Trumbo **** (2015, Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Elle Fanning) – Movie Review

Director Jay Roach’s riveting 2015 movie tells the crucial story of the diabolical Hollywood blacklist and America’s persecution of left-wingers and radicals that brought appalling harm to individuals, some jailed after committing no crime, and shame […]

Jan, 13

Dracula’s Daughter *** (1936, Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 2767

Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 horror movie (remotely based on Bram Stoker’s short story Dracula’s Guest) is a low-budget, effective sequel to the 1931 Dracula that picks up (alas without Bela Lugosi) where it leaves off. The […]

Aug, 02

Nothing Sacred ***** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 1,951

The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]

Dec, 13

Sunset Boulevard [Sunset Blvd.] ***** (1950, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 159

‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close up.’ Biting the hand that feeds him, Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Boulevard [Sunset Blvd.] is a […]

Aug, 14

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