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Berlin Express ***½ (1948, Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5695

Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan lead Jacques Tourneur’s gripping and entertaining 1948 postwar film noir espionage thriller Berlin Express, with a tense train setting, about an Allied group battling to save a German peace-worker diplomat […]

Jul, 02

Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471

In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]

Oct, 10

Frantz **** (2016, Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice de Lencquesaing) – Movie Review

Writer-director François Ozon’s incredibly romantic, gorgeously bitter-sweet drama stars Paula Beer as young German woman Anna who is grieving the death of her fiancé Frantz in the fighting in World War One France. She lives in a German small town […]

Oct, 06

The Son of the Sheik ***** (1926, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, Agnes Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 3052

Director George Fitzmaurice’s delightful 1926 silent classic provided Rudolph Valentino with what tragically turned out to be his final film role. Released on 5 September 1926 shortly after his death from a ruptured gastric ulcer […]

Nov, 12

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies *** (2014, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage) – Movie Review

Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen return as Bilbo and Gandalf for one last time in Peter Jackson’s final Middle-Earth action movie that turns the two sweet, thoughtful characters into lusty action heroes and the final episode of […]

Dec, 10

Fellini’s Roma **** (1972, dir Federico Fellini) – Classic Movie Review 1318

Rome wasn’t built in a day – for Fellini’s Roma it took forever to recreate a huge section of it in Cinecittà’s studios in Rome. But it was worth it. Roma looks a brilliant treat. Writer-director […]

Jun, 13

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