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The Great Lie **** (1941, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2736

Director Edmund Goulding’s polished 1941 drama The Great Lie is another of the outstanding movies from the prime of Bette Davis, then reigning queen of the Warner Bros studio. The Great Lie is a great […]

Jul, 24

Dangerous **** (1935, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 2,697

Warner Bros’ 1935 drama film Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, mannered but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar. Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 […]

Jul, 14

Love on the Run [L’Amour en Fuite] ***½ (1979, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani, Dorothée) – Classic Movie Review 2590

Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]

Jun, 13

The Private Life of Henry VIII ***** (1933, Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 2495

Producer-director Alexander Korda’s 1933 triumph The Private Life of Henry VIII was the first British movie to enjoy worldwide success. It was an even sweeter triumph because at the time period films were considered to […]

May, 17

Clouds of Sils Maria ***** (2014, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz) – Movie Review

Juliette Binoche is on commanding form as Maria Enders, a fading veteran star actress who reluctantly agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier. Back then Maria […]

May, 12

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

Kramer vs Kramer ***** (1979, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 2,065

Robert Benton won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for the 1979 American legal drama film Kramer vs Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry. Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted […]

Jan, 10

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