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Born Yesterday ***** (1950, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 1307
Director George Cukor’s 1950 comedy classic stars the scintillating Judy Holliday, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Billie Dawn, the delightfully ditzy showgirl mistress of brash and boorish millionaire junk-metal dealer Harry Brock (Broderick […]
Gaslight ***** (1944, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 1231
Gaslight (1944) won two Academy Awards. The Oscar voters surprisingly preferred Ingrid Bergman over the favourite Barbara Stanwyck (in Double Indemnity) for her performance as the naïve socialite wife driven to distraction (by Charles Boyer) […]
Dead Man Walking ***** (1995, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn) – Classic Movie Review 1007
Writer-director Tim Robbins’s triumphant 1995 film stars his then life partner Susan Sarandon, who won a highly deserved Best Actress Oscar portraying the real-life nun who helps a convicted killer (Oscar-nominated Best Actor Sean Penn) […]
The Lion in Winter ***** (1968, Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Jane Merrow, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry) – Classic Film Review 1000
Director Anthony Harvey’s superb, stirring, sterling triple-Oscar-winning 1968 classic costume period drama is the cat-fighting story of duelling divas at Christmas at the English court. It won Oscars for Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and […]
Walk the Line **** (2005, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 712
Following the trail blazed by Ray (2004), director James Mangold’s entertaining, informative and involving 2005 biopic of troubled country music legend Johnny Cash boasts an ace impersonation and a great performance by Oscar-nominated Best Actor […]
The Reader **** (2008, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Ralph Fiennes) – Classic Movie Review 536
‘It doesn’t matter what I feel. The dead are still dead.’ Director Stephen Daldry’s haunting 2008 film of Bernhard Schlink’s 1995 novel Der Vorleser is an uncomfortable and disturbing experience, as intended. It focuses on […]
Suspicion ***** (1941, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 441
Alfred Hitchcock’s richly enjoyable and likeable 1941 thriller Suspicion (1941) is a sweaty exercise in anxiety. Both stars Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are at the peak of their career, powers and attraction. In the […]