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Mildred Pierce ***** (1945, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett)) – Classic Movie Review 375
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1945 classic Mildred Pierce is both a great ‘Woman’s Picture’ melodrama as well as a great film noir thriller. Triumphantly winning what turned out to be her only Best Actress Oscar, Joan Crawford […]
Hud ***** (1963, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 230
Paul Newman is stupendous in a chilling performance as Hud, a callous cowboy with a barbed-wire soul. Martin Ritt’s 1963 film portrait of a 60s Texan farming family is an elegiac modern Western and a […]
Fargo ***** (1996, William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 220
A homespun murder story. The Coen brothers Joel and Ethan are on their best, most exhilarating form in this corking real-life-derived 1996 thriller. It won a Best Actress Oscar for Frances McDormand as the nice, […]
Blue Jasmine **** (2013, Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review
Blue Jasmine is superb. You’d never know this was a Woody Allen film if it wasn’t for the credits and the old-time jazz score. You know the two masks of theatre, smiley face, sad face. […]
Funny Girl ***** (1968, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Medford) – Classic Movie Review 183
Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is one of the few performers to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She first starred in the 1968 film Funny Girl, winning Best Actress. Barbra Streisand dazzles […]
Monster’s Ball **** (2001, Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Amber Rules) – Classic Movie Review 151
A troubled African American woman (Halle Berry) has a dangerous affair with a prejudiced white man (Billy Bob Thornton) in America’s Deep South in director Marc Foster’s posh, classy, complex 2001 romantic drama that tackles the […]
Roman Holiday ***** (1953, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 44
This delicious 1953 triple-Oscar-winning confection, restored and reissued for its 60th anniversary in 2013, stars Gregory Peck but now is better known as a beloved Audrey Hepburn classic. She’s credited after the title as ‘introducing […]