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We Were Strangers *** (1949, Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9961

Director John Huston’s 1949 We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as Tony Fenner, who helps a 1930s Cuba plot to overthrow the tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado by blowing up a cemetery at […]

Jun, 26

The Dead Don’t Die *** (2019, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s cool zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019) is consistently amusing throughout, with a whole lot of laughs and chortles. It is the knowing comedy of irrelevance, sarcasm, throwaway lines, absurdities and […]

Jul, 14

Pet Sematary *** (1989, Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne) – Classic Movie Review 7,110

Stephen King writes the screenplay for 1989 American supernatural horror film Pet Sematary, the first adaptation of his 1983 novel. Director Mary Lambert’s 1989 fantasy horror thriller Pet Sematary turns Stephen King’s disturbing, far-fetched tale into a chillingly gory, upsetting horror […]

Jun, 02

The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948

‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]

Apr, 19

Night of the Ghouls * (1959, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Paul Marco, Criswell) – Classic Movie Review 5,287

The astoundingly awful 1959 horror sci-fi film Night of the Ghouls is another ghoulishly ghastly movie from writer-producer-director Edward D Wood Jr, the world’s most enjoyable worst movie-maker. A walking dead sequel to Ed Wood’s […]

Apr, 14

The Silence of the Hams [Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti] * (1994, Ezio Greggio, Dom DeLuise, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam, Rip Taylor, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 5013

Writer-producer-director- star Ezio Greggio’s 1994 comedy is a horrible, laugh-free parody of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and other killer thrillers, mainly Psycho (1960). It is opportunist and pathetic and lacks the imagination to have any […]

Feb, 07

Night of the Living Dead **** (1968, Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4842

Co-writer/ director George A Romero’s eerie, grizzly 1968 horror movie Night of the Living Dead, with its yarn about a group of panicked strangers holing up in an isolated farmhouse to elude a throng of […]

Jan, 04

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