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Travels with My Aunt ** (1972, Maggie Smith, Alex McCowen, Lou Gossett Jr, Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 4039

Director George Cukor’s 1972 comedy drama stars Maggie Smith as Dotty Aunt Augusta Bertram, who takes her prim nephew Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen), a buttoned-up English bank manager, on an eccentric trip to Graham Greeneland, with […]

Jul, 18 · in Uncategorized

Sleuth **** (1972, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, Eve Channing) – Classic Movie Review 4038

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1972 British thriller stars Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, who obviously relishes one of his last major performances as a cuckolded thriller writer who inveigles his wife’s lover (Caine) in for […]

Jul, 17 · in Uncategorized

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing **** (1973, Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4037

Young Maggie Smith and younger Timothy Bottoms star together in producer-director Alan J Pakula’s truly sweet and charming little 1973 romantic drama. Smith stars as the emotionally repressed, older English spinster Lila Fisher and Bottoms […]

Jul, 17

Like It Is *** (1998, Steve Bell, Ian Rose, Roger Daltrey, Dani Behr) – Classic Movie Review 4036

Director Paul Oremland’s 1998 British ‘coming-out’ tale is occasionally hesitant but overall surprisingly entertaining and credible. Bare-knuckle fighter Craig (impressively played by British amateur featherweight champion Steve Bell) swaps his violent life in Blackpool’s underworld […]

Jul, 17

Like Grains of Sand [Nagisa no Shindobaddo] *** (1995, Yoshinori Okada, Kôta Kusano, Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Takada, Kouji Yamaguchi) – Classic Movie Review 4035

Yoshinori Okada and Kôta Kusano star in writer-director Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s intense, subtle and moving 1995 Japanese gay film about the complex relationships between a close-knit group of four teenage friends and focusing on a high school […]

Jul, 17

Breaking Away **** (1979, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) – Classic Movie Review 4034

Best known for his thrillers, British director Peter Yates delivers a triumph with this exhilarating 1979 American comedy, with a smashing lead performance from Dennis Christopher, who deserved to go on to stardom. Christopher plays […]

Jul, 17

Endless Night ** (1972, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 4033

Writer-director Sidney Gilliat re-pairs the hit young star-player team from The Family Way (1966) and Twisted Nerve (1968), Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, for another creepy thriller, a heavily reworked 1972 film version of a well-regarded Agatha Christie […]

Jul, 16

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