Tag: Virginia
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Loving **** (2016, Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton) – Movie Review
Writer-director Jeff Nichols tells the compelling and moving true story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, and their ground-breaking legal challenge of their arrest for their marriage in Virginia. The movie is really well handled and, above all, really well acted by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in the most warm, tender and sincere of performances. Both actors…
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In this Our Life *** (1942, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Charles Coburn, Frank Craven, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 2,742
John Huston’s 1942 drama film In this Our Life stars Bette Davis, who is on the rampage again as an unscrupulous and devilish minx called Stanley Timberlake, who keeps stealing her sister’s men. Director John Huston’s 1942 drama film In this Our Life stars Bette Davis, who is on the rampage again as an unscrupulous…
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The Exorcist III ***½ (1990, George C Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Nicol Williamson, Jason Miller) – Classic Movie Review 2524
Oscar-winning writer William Peter Blatty’s belated 1990 sequel (as both writer and director this time) to his 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist is advertised as ‘from the creator of the original Exorcist’. That’s to distance itself from the failed second movie, John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic, which didn’t involve Blatty. George C Scott stars as…
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Shenandoah **** (1965, James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 2047
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s exciting vehicle for the 57-year-old James Stewart, who was still a major star and box-office attraction in 1965, is a near-classic Western soap opera that mixes action and melodrama to good effect in its story of a Shenandoah, Virginia, dynasty during the American Civil War. The film’s strong anti-war and humanitarian…
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Cold Mountain *** (2003, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Charlie Hunnam, Jena Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1821
After fierce fighting in the American Civil War, wounded Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law) is on a perilous journey home to his North Carolina mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-Civil War sweetheart Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive and revive her late father (Donald Sutherland)’s farm with the…