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The Prizefighter and the Lady *** (1933, Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera) – Classic Movie Review 8968

Director W S Van Dyke’s 1933 romantic comedy crime drama The Prizefighter and the Lady stars real-life prizefighter Max Baer as the ex-sailor turned boxer hero Steve Morgan, while top-billed Myrna Loy plays bar star […]

Oct, 08

Claudine **** (1974, Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs) – Classic Movie Review 8963

Diahann Carroll was Oscar nominated as Best Actress in a Leading Role and Golden Globe nominated Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for director John Berry’s enjoyable, captivatingly acted hit comedy […]

Oct, 06

The Kitchen *** (2019, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Andrea Berloff’s devious 2019 mob movie The Kitchen starts out like Widows, with the three wives of gangsters in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the late Seventies, forced by being broke to operate their […]

Sep, 25

Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] (2019) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]

Sep, 12

The North Star ** (1943, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Farley Granger, Jane Withers, Erich von Stroheim, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8883

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]

Sep, 08

Girl with Green Eyes **** (1964, Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave) Classic Movie Review 8839

Rita Tushingham stars as Kate, a plain lonely girl with green eyes, who is sharing digs in Dublin’s fair city with her vivacious friend Baba (Lynn Redgrave), when she meets and falls for middle-aged, married […]

Aug, 17

Dragon Seed ** (1944, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 8813

MGM’s 1944 propaganda drama film Dragon Seed is a failed bid to film the hit Pearl S Buck novel about the Chinese being forced to cope with Japanese invaders. It stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Aug, 10

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