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Blood and Sand **** (1922, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Lila Lee, Rosa Rosanova) – Classic Movie Review 2996

Producer-director Fred Niblo’s 1922 silent classic Blood and Sand is a splendid showcase for the alluring Rudolph Valentino in one of his most famous roles and finest movies. It was a major hit and is […]

Oct, 19

The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

Brideshead Revisited *** (2008, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Joseph Beattie, Felicity Jones, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 2941

Director Julian Jarrold’s conscientious, sumptuous and costly ($20 million) remake for the cinema of Brideshead Revisited in 2008 of the much loved 1981 classic of British TV drama Brideshead Revisited is an effective adaptation of […]

Oct, 02

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials *** (2015, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

In part two of The Maze Runner saga, the survivors of the Maze face a new impossible odds and obstacles on a desolate, post-apocalypse urban landscape as they are relentlessly pursued by Janson (Aidan Gillen), […]

Sep, 10

Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820

Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]

Aug, 16

The Pickwick Papers **** (1952, James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Gingold, Kathleen Harrison, Alexander Gauge, Joyce Grenfell, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 2,796

Renown Pictures’ 1952 British historical comedy drama film The Pickwick Papers is based on Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel and stars James Hayter as Samuel Pickwick, along with a grand galaxy of Brit character actors of the era. Writer-director Noel Langley conscientiously […]

Aug, 09

The Legend of Barney Thomson ** (2015, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo) – Movie Review

In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]

Jul, 23

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