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Chill Factor ** (1999, Cuba Gooding Jnr, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 1485

Director Hugh Johnson’s 1999 release has its moments but it is a sluggish, formulaic, unbelievable Speed-style chase thriller, with engaging performances from the likeable stars giving it a bit of a lift. Cuba Gooding Jnr […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Last Dance *** (1996, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1484

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1996 release stars Sharon Stone, who gives one of her least typical performances in this incredibly depressing drama. It was dubbed Dead Woman Walking as it’s about Cindy Liggett, a female killer […]

Jul, 27 · in Articles

Room at the Top ***** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1,483

Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film Room at the Top is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Laurence […]

Jul, 27

A Kind of Loving **** (1962, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 1482

‘You know, it’s a funny feeling. Sometimes I really fancy her, and the next day I can hardly stand the sight of her.’ – Vic Brown (Alan Bates). Director John Schlesinger’s gifted 1962 film A […]

Jul, 27

Kes ***** (1969, David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1481

Director Ken Loach’s 1969 film is his masterpiece, a superb British humanist, realist film. It is a bleak, despairing but not negative  experience and it is lit up with a heartrending performance by the young David […]

Jul, 27

Live Now – Pay Later **** (1962, Ian Hendry, Liz Fraser, June Ritchie, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1,480

‘There’s 200,000 consumers in this town, and they’re all waiting for you… just you.’ – Mr Callendar (John Gregson). ‘Yeah, to con ’em into buying a whole load of stuff they don’t need and can’t […]

Jul, 27

Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479

In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]

Jul, 26

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