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Article 99 ** (1992, Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, John Mahoney, Lea Thompson, John C McGinley, Eli Wallach, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6659

Director Howard Deutch’s 1992 comedy drama is an overwrought hospital saga, swinging uncertainly and hesitantly between comic satire and soapbox preaching, but with the young Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland trying hard as Dr Richard […]

Feb, 07 · in Reviews

The FBI Story ***½ (1959, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6,658

The 1959 thriller film The FBI Story stars James Stewart as Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty. The FBI controlled every move and the production had J Edgar Hoover breathing down their neck constantly. […]

Feb, 07 · in Reviews

Demons of the Mind ** (1972, Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills, Michael Hordern, Shane Briant) – Classic Movie Review 6657

Robert Hardy stars as Zorn, a 19th-century Bavarian baron who keeps his teenaged children Elizabeth and Emil (Gillian Hills, Shane Briant) locked away and drugged for fear that the family insanity is hereditary. The madness is […]

Feb, 07

Delicatessen **** (1991, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac) – Classic Movie Review 6656

French writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s brilliant 1991 Gothic nightmare Delicatessen stars Dominique Pinon as a Louison, circus clown who takes work with a butcher called Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who is chopping people up. Soon the […]

Feb, 07

The Mercy ** (2018, Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis) – Movie Review

Colin Firth is well cast and does well as real-life amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race to try to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe […]

Feb, 06

Manon des Sources [Manon of the Spring] **** (1952, Jacqueline Pagnol, Rellys, Henri Poupon) – Classic Movie Review 6655

Writer/ producer/ director Marcel Pagnol’s beautiful original 1952 film version of one of his haunting excursions through village life in Provence makes for epic French cinema. The director’s wife Jacqueline Pagnol stars in an autobiographical […]

Feb, 06

Manon **** (1949, Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 6654

Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]

Feb, 05

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