Recent Posts
- Gigi *** (1949, Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Jean Tissier) Classic Movie Review – 13,971
- The Replacement Killers *** (1998, Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Collins Jr, Carlos Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 13,970
- Coyote Ugly *** (2000, Piper Perabo, John Goodman, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Melanie Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, LeAnn Rimes, Bud Cort) – Classic Movie Review 13,969
- Shadow of Fear *** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
Reviews
Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] ** (1973, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 10,716
Director James Cellan Jones’s 1973 British historical biopic Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] stars Peter Finch as Viscount Horatio Nelson (1759-1805) and Glenda Jackson as his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton (1765-1815). This is […]
Benvenuta *** (1983, Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Françoise Fabian, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 10,715
Belgian writer-director André Delvaux assembles a strong cast for the 1983 film Benvenuta, his skilful, stylish but finally puzzling romance about a film writer called François (Mathieu Carrière) who digs out a reclusive novelist called […]
The Benny Goodman Story *** (1956, Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten) – Classic Movie Review 10,714
Steve Allen stars – quite impressively too – in writer-director Valentine Davies’s 1956 The Benny Goodman Story, a sentimental fictionalised musical around the career of Benny Goodman, the ace clarinet player from Chicago’s Jewish quarter, […]
Moon Zero Two *** (1969, James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri) – Classic Movie Review 10,713
Hammer Films studios abandon horror for director Roy Ward Baker’s brave and ambitious 1969 British sci-fi movie Moon Zero Two, a hybrid Western set in a future-world outer space on the Moon in the year 2021, […]
Once a Jolly Swagman *** (1949, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird, Moira Lister, Sidney James, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,712
Director Jack Lee’s 1949 black and white British film Once a Jolly Swagman [Maniacs on Wheels] stars the young Dirk Bogarde as Bill Fox, a jolly 1930s factory worker who quits his job to become […]
Tape *** (2001, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman) – Classic Movie Review 10,711
‘Some things can’t be erased’. Richard Linklater’s 2001 drama Tape is a digital-video film version of Stephen Belber’s stage play, with the screenplay also by Stephen Belber, in a single location and single set production. […]
Tap *** (1989, Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,710
‘Sometimes, no matter what, you can’t escape the rhythm.’ Writer-director Nick Castle’s 1989 musical drama Tap stars Gregory Hines as footloose Max Washington, just released from prison, who can’t decide between a life of crime […]