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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society *** (2018, Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

Despite its faults, Mike Newell’s picturesque period romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War Two, is compelling and its accompanying mystery is intriguing. It comes from the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, […]

Apr, 23

Cimarron * (1960, Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O’Connell, Vic Morrow, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge) – Classic Movie Review 6488

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 remake of the classic 1931 Western film Cimarron, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, is slow, overblown and empty, running a plodding 147 minutes. It is a real disappointment, despite […]

Dec, 29

Someone’s Watching Me! **** (1978, Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, James Murtaugh) – Classic Movie Review 6009

Writer-director John Carpenter 1978 classic TV movie thriller is in the best Alfred Hitchcock vein. It is suspensefully directed with a highly attractive, gutsy performance from Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels, a TV news director […]

Sep, 09

Letter from an Unknown Woman ***** (1948, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians) – Classic Movie Review 5247

Director Max Ophüls’s gloriously romantic 1948 movie provides a memorable walk on the wild side of romance here as Joan Fontaine’s character Lisa Berndle is overwhelmed by unrequited love for dashing but self-obsessed womanising pianist Stefan Brand (played […]

Apr, 03

Letter to Brezhnev **** (1985, Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 5246

Director Chris Bernard’s 1985 British comedy drama has a fine star team in Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth and Alfred Molina and was a much-deserved big hit in its home UK. It tells a […]

Apr, 03

Tickle Me **½ (1965, Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Francine York, Allison Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 4,854

The 1965 musical film Tickle Me stars Elvis Presley as a singing rodeo rider cowboy working as a stable boy on Julie Adams’s girly Arizona health farm dude ranch. Director Norman Taurog’s 1965 Elvis Presley […]

Jan, 07

The Notebook **** (2004, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Ryan Gosling, James Marsden, Joan Allen, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 4765

Nicholas Sparks’s famous 1996 romantic epic novel arrives on screen in 2004 courtesy director Nick Cassavetes and a screenplay by Jeremy Leven (adaptation by Jan Sardi). Incredibly popular as the 15th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time, and […]

Dec, 06

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