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The Raven **** (1935, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Spencer Charters, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2677

The great Thirties fright team of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are happily re-paired for the highly estimable 1935 Universal Studios horror item The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Director Lew Landers re-assembles […]

Jul, 07

Trauma *½ (2004, Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Kenneth Cranham, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy) – Classic Movie Review 2153

Director Marc Evans’s 2004 thriller stars Colin Firth as Ben, who wakes up from a coma after a car crash to find that his wife is dead, and he starts hallucinating. A few weeks later, […]

Feb, 03

Without Limits *** (1998, Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter) – Classic Movie Review 2098

Co-writer/director Robert Towne’s 1998 biographical sports drama stars the young Billy Crudup as the amazingly promising but doomed American athlete Steve Prefontaine in the second out of two simultaneously made biopic films. This one has the […]

Jan, 22

Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748

  Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]

Oct, 06

What Dreams May Come *** (1999, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 1542

Director Vincent Ward’s ambitious 1999 romantic fantasy drama finds Robin Williams in serious mode, wanting to save the world through love and healing. Some audiences understandably reject it as a ghastly, kitsch, heart-sinking, New Age, pseudo-religious experience, but […]

Aug, 12

Mulholland Drive **** (2001, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 1113

This crazy story of Tinsel Town’s flotsam and jetsam is an intriguing, gorgeous looking but utterly unfathomable 2001 surreal noir movie from the master of the macabre, writer-director David Lynch. He landed a Best Director […]

Apr, 18

Signs **** (2002, Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) – Classic Movie Review 916

Prepare to suspend all disbelief to enjoy director M Night Shayamalan’s 2002 third brilliantly scary movie in a row, following The Sixth Sense (1999) and Unbreakable (2000). And he really knows how to send shivers […]

Mar, 15

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