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The House That Jack Built **** (2018, Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman) – Movie Review

Writer-director Lars von Trier’s serial killer black comedy horror movie The House That Jack Built is an astonishing movie, astonishingly vile, sadistic, nasty and unpleasant, and astonishingly clever, brilliant and dazzling. Von Trier shows off the breadth and, […]

Dec, 14 · in Reviews

Buck and the Preacher **(1972, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7902

Sidney Poitier makes his directorial début with the unusual 1971 Western Buck and the Preacher concentrating on black characters, in which he also stars and teams with Harry Belafonte as escaped slaves going West. They […]

Dec, 13 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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