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Evil Under the Sun *** (1982, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Diana Rigg, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley) – Classic Movie Review 1,305
Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]
The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers) – Classic Movie Review 1285
Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]
The Quiet American *** (2002, Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser) – Classic Film Review 1221
Director Phillip Noyce’s 2002 thriller stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine, who is back on top form in this classy and compelling version of Graham Greene’s distinguished novel. Caine plays Thomas Fowler, an ageing British reporter for […]
In Secret *** (2013, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Lange, Tom Felton) – Movie Review
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this intense, well-acted film of Emile Zola’s 1867 tragic romance as the sexually repressed beautiful young tragic heroine Therese Raquin. Jessica Lange co-stars as her domineering aunt Madame Raquin, who traps into a loveless […]
Tarzan 3D (2013, Kellan Lutz) – Movie Review
Tarzan 3D is advertised as a new spin on Tarzan, but it doesn’t have a new idea in its head. Instead it recycles all those historic Tarzan clichés we’re so familiar with, along with nods […]
The Motel Life **** (2012, Stephen Dorff, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson, Joshua Leonard, Garrett Backstrom, Andrew Lee) – Movie Review
Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are the American working-class Flannigan brothers. One lost a leg train-hopping; the other is a recovering alcoholic. Now Jerry Lee and Frank are forced to flee their Reno motel after getting involved […]
A Long Way Down *** (2014, Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul) – Movie Review
The stars of Need for Speed, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, reunite for this well-meaning, good-natured but rather depressing little drama based on Nick Hornby’s novel. It would be depressing, wouldn’t it? It’s about suicide. The […]