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Act of Violence **** (1949, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 5277

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]

Apr, 10

The Rain People **** (1969, James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 4707

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s intriguing early career film from 1969 demands attention and respect, with Shirley Knight starring as Natalie Ravenna, a New York housewife who panics when she discovers that she is pregnant and […]

Nov, 27

Up the Sandbox *** (1972, Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Stockard Channing, Paul Dooley, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 4,074

The awkward but ambitious 1972 comedy-drama film Up the Sandbox stars Barbra Streisand as a pregnant New Yorker, who feels bored with her life and neglected by her husband (David Selby), and takes to fantasising, […]

Jul, 24

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

Safe *** (1995, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1530

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]

Aug, 09

The Bridges of Madison County **** (1995, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley) – Classic Movie Review 748

Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]

Jan, 25

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