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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 · in Uncategorized

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

The Family Way **** (1966, John Mills, Marjorie Rhodes, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Avril Angers, Murray Head, Wilfred Pickles, Barry Foster, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 4032

Director Roy Boulting’s hit British 1966 film adaptation of Bill Naughton’s play All in Good Time is warm hearted, enjoyable and good natured. It stars Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills as a young couple, Arthur and Jenny Fitton, agonising over […]

Jul, 16

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