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The Happy Prince **** (2018, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review
In his tour-de-force labour of love The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a pitiful wreck of a broken man, more sinned against than […]
Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186
A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]
Somebody Up There Likes Me **** (1956, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 6893
Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]
Molly’s Game **** (2017, Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Chris O’Dowd, Jeremy Strong) – Movie Review
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s truly epic biopic of ‘Poker Princess’ Molly Bloom is a knockout. It is 140 mesmerising screen minutes. Both Sorkin’s screenplay and his star Jessica Chastain as Bloom are nothing short of sensational. Kevin […]
Reckless *** (1935, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson) – Classic Movie Review 4942
The 1935 MGM musical melodrama film stars Jean Harlow as a theatre star whose career is endangered by the scandal of her husband’s suicide. Uncomfortably, the tale is plucked by producer David O Selznick from […]
A Song to Remember ** (1944, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, George Macready, Nina Foch) – Classic Movie Review 4602
Put the 1945 film A Song to Remember on your Chopin Liszt! Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor – his only ever Oscar nomination. Stephen Bekassy co-stars as […]
Born To Be Blue ***½ (2015, Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Rennie, Stephen McHattie) – Movie Review
A portrait in wrecked, crumpled charm, Ethan Hawke gives a strong and powerful performance as trumpeter Chet Baker in writer-director Robert Budreau‘s 2015 story of the tormented heroin-addicted jazz legend’s musical comeback in the late Sixties. It […]