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- Dry Wind [Vento Seco] ** (2020, Leandro Faria Lelo, Allan Jacinto Santana, Renata Carvalho, Rafael Teóphilo) – Classic Movie Review 14,022
- Black Patch *** (1957, George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon, Sebastian Cabot, Lynn Cartwright) – Classic Movie Review 14,021
- Sorry Angel [Plaire, aimer et courir vite] ****(Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydès, Thomas Gonzalez, 2018) – Classic Movie Review 14,020
- Date with Disaster *** (1957, Tom Drake, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Maurice Kaufmann, Michael Golden, Richard Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 14,019
- Travis Mc Gee *** (1983, Sam Elliott, Richard Farnsworth, Gene Evans, Barry Corbin, Geoffrey Lewis, Amy Madigan, Vera Miles, Katharine Ross, Marshall R Teague) – Classic Movie Review 14,018
- Tethered Wings [Les ailes collées] *** (2025, Roby Schinasi, Jérémy Kapone, Émilie Caen, Max Libert, Alexis Rosenstiehl) – Classic Movie Review 14,017
- Child in the House ** (1956, Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Stanley Baker, Mandy Miller) – Classic Movie Review 14,016
- Death of a Corrupt Man [Mort d’un pourri] **** (1977, Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Klaus Kinski, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 14,015
- Town Tamer *** (1965, Dana Andrews, Terry Moore, Pat O’Brien, Lon Chaney Jr, Bruce Cabot, Lyle Bettger, Richard Arlen) – Classic Movie Review 14,014
- Black Spurs ** (1965, Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Terry Moore, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr, James Best, Richard Arlen, Bruce Cabot, Patricia Owens, James Brown, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 14,013
Articles
Love Story *** (1970, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 4,193
Ryan O’Neal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the 1970 romantic drama film Love Story. The success of Easy […]
La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] ***** (1994, Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi, Vincent Perez, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 4191
La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] is a riveting French historical melodrama that has its centrepiece as the 24 August 1572 St Barthomew’s Day Massacre, which is chillingly and magnificently staged like the mass revenge slayings in The Godfather. […]
A Passage to India **** (1984, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, James Fox, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3178
After a 14-year gap, writer-director David Lean made a spectacular comeback in 1984 with his accomplished and satisfying adaptation of the E M Forster classic novel about the eye-opening first visit to India of a […]
The Fall of the Krays ***½ (2015, Simon Cotton, Kevin Leslie, James Weber Brown, Josh Myers) – Movie Review
Taut, tense and well-made, director Zackary Adler’s welcome and essential sequel to his The Rise of the Krays is a lean, mean, spare, non-glamourised London crime thriller. It’s grittier and less of a show than Legend (2015). […]
Captive ** (2015, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers, Michael K Williams, Leonor Varela) – Movie Review
Life-affirming, uplifting entertainment has its place but it needs a tougher, grittier, more rigorous, challenging edge. Kate Mara plays real-life single mother drug user Ashley Smith who is held captive in her home by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) on […]
McFarland, USA ***½ (2015, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Carlos Pratts, Ramiro Rodriguez, Morgan Saylor, Elsie Fisher) – Movie Review
Kevin Costner’s film has legs: this will run and run. Corny and sentimental though undoubtedly is, McFarland is also a beautifully done, sheering heart-warmer. Inhabiting the space with leathery charm, style and grace, a relaxed […]
Solace **½ (2015, Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley) – Movie Review
Anthony Hopkins stars as a psychic doctor working with an FBI agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a criminal psychologist (Abbie Cornish) to find a serial killer (Colin Farrell), in the 2015 American mystery thriller film Solace. Anthony […]