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Anthony Adverse **** (1936, Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Gale Sondergaard, Edmund Gwenn, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 5732
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1936 Warner Bros film of Hervey Allen’s novel about an early 19th-century hero’s adventures in America, France and Italy is rich, stirring and lavish. It won four Oscars, with three other nominations. […]
Dark Habits [Entre Tinieblas] *** (1983, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Julieta Serrano, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3573
This tasty 1983 black comedy from fashionable cult writer-director Pedro Almodóvar is his third film – after Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). It has an almost all-female cast featuring many of his favourite leading ladies and is […]
Sister Act **** (1992, Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Harvey Keitel, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 3557
Director Emile Ardolino’s 1992 blockbuster comedy Sister Act stars Whoopi Goldberg as Las Vegas showgirl Deloris, who sees her mobster lover Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel) kill a stoolie and becomes a nun on the run […]
The Iron Mask ***** (1929, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier, Nigel De Brulier, Leon Barry, Stanley J Stanford, Gino Conrado, Belle Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2322
Producer-writer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1929 sequel to his 1921 triumph The Three Musketeers reunites him with several members of the original cast. This marvellous Alexandre Dumas père swashbuckler is virtually the final fling of the […]
Queen Kelly **** (1929, Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen) – Classic Movie Review 1981
Best known nowadays, if at all, for the excerpt of it seen in her 1950 comeback movie triumph Sunset Blvd., Queen Kelly (1929) is Gloria Swanson’s famous silent film. Alas, it ended up in an […]
Black Narcissus ***** (1947, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu) – Classic Movie Review 602
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1947 film Black Narcissus, about five Anglo-Catholic nuns who have set up a school and infirmary in a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff in […]
Philomena **** (2013, Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Barbara Jefford, Mare Winningham) – Movie Review
Sacked from the BBC News, Martin Sixsmith, a real-life world-weary political journalist is approached at a party by a young woman, who asks him to investigate the story of Philomena Lee, an elderly Irish woman searching for […]