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The Halfway House **** (1944, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 8163
Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]
Requiem for a Heavyweight **** (1962, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris) – Classic Movie Review 7723
Director Ralph Nelson’s 1962 black and white sports drama Requiem for a Heavyweight (Blood Money in GB) is a dour, nimbly-played fight movie, with the acting, fleshed-out characterisations and sweaty atmosphere stronger than the plot. […]
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 […]
A Second Chance ** (2014, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas) – Movie Review
Director Susanne Bier and writer Anders Thomas Jensen craft an intriguing yet hopelessly far-fetched melodrama about a loving married couple (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Bonnevie) who tragically lose their baby but get a surprise second chance […]
Before Sunset ***** (2004, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 858
It’s 2004, and nine years on from their first tentative but passionate encounter in Richard Linklater’s 1995 romantic drama Before Sunrise (1995), Jesse (Ethan Hawke), now a writer, is back in Europe for a book […]
It’s a Wonderful Life ***** (1946, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 9
Co-writer/ producer/ director Frank Capra’s big-hearted and richly enjoyable 1946 toast to the virtues and joys of small-town America and Americans, It’s a Wonderful Life, is now established firmly as an all-time great. Its attack […]
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