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Housekeeping *** (1987, Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill) – Classic Movie Review 9083

Writer-director Bill Forsyth, best known for his whimsical, Scottish comedies such as That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl, moves to the US and delivers a rather dark and disturbing character study with comic touches in […]

Nov, 20

Night Unto Night ** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7981

Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]

Jan, 05

Back from the Dead ** (1957, Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 7856

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1957 black and white horror movie Back from the Dead is a preposterous shocker, but given a big lift with a spirited performance by Peggie Castle as Mandy Hazelton Anthony, a […]

Nov, 30

The Girl in the Spider’s Web *** (2018, Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Convery, Beau Gadsdon, Carlotta von Falkenhayn) – Movie Review

The 2018 New Dragon Tattoo Story, Uruguay director Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, is a brisk, capable and coldly efficient noir-style action crime thriller, but it is also uber-dark, gruelling and deeply unpleasant, […]

Nov, 24

Wings of the Hawk *** (1953, Van Heflin, Julie Adams, Abbe Lane, George Dolenz) – Classic Movie Review 7374

Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 Wings of the Hawk is a good-quality standard Western from Universal Pictures, with the usual heroics set against a convincingly etched South American backdrop, with solid dialogue and strong bursts of action. […]

Jul, 30

Merrily We Live ***** (1938, Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7205

Zany families were quite the thing in the Thirties. In My Man Godfrey (1936), a zany family hires a tramp to be a butler. But here in Merrily We Live (1938) a tramp (really a famous […]

Jun, 22

Dreaming of Joseph Lees * (1999, Rupert Graves, Samatha Morton, Frank Finlay, Lee Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7062

In Fifties Somerset, England, Eva (Samatha Morton) is looking after her forgetful dad (Frank Finlay) and living with her crazy farmer lover Harry (Lee Ross), but loves her childhood sweetheart Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves). Director […]

May, 16

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