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Mary, Queen of Scots ** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, Nigel Davenport, Daniel Massey, Ian Holm, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 7901

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots is worth a look for the heavyweight actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson in their prime, if not quite at their peak, and for the various star […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Aquaman *** (2018, Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren) – Movie Review

Director James Wan’s Aquaman (2018) is enormous fun, an inventive visual banquet, a DC comic come to life on screen. I loved the way it is so surreal and bonkers, and makes absolutely no sense […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

Mary Queen of Scots ** (2018, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Adrian Lester, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, David Tennant) – Movie Review

Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]

Dec, 13

No Down Payment *** (1957, Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Barbara Rush, Pat Hingle, Robert H Harris) – Classic Movie Review 7900

Director Martin Ritt’s 1957 drama No Down Payment is based on the novel by John McPartland and offers a peek into the lives of the residents of the Sunrise Hills suburbs in a southern California […]

Dec, 11

Edge of the City ***** (1957, John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7899

Director Martin Ritt’s 1957 Edge of the City [A Man Is Ten Feet Tall] stars John Cassavetes as an army deserter called Axel Nordmann, who joins up with easy-going New York dockworker Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier) […]

Dec, 11

Not as a Stranger ** (1955, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame,Charles Bickford, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7898

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s strongly cast but little known 1955 film noir-style romantic drama Not as a Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as ego-driven aspiring physician Lucas Marsh, who marries Swedish nurse Kristina Hedvigson (Olivia de Havilland) […]

Dec, 11

Green Book **** (2018, Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini) – Movie Review

Director Peter Farrelly’s 2018 biographical comedy drama Green Book is a whole load of fun, hugely entertaining and enjoyable, with lots of laughs, some broad, some more subtle and some wicked, though it occasionally seems […]

Dec, 10

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