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Sweet as You Are **** (1987, Miranda Richardson, Liam Neeson, Alex Pakenham) – Classic Movie Review 5,235

Angela Pope’s urgent 1987 British TV drama film Sweet as You Are stars Liam Neeson as a married college lecturer who finds out that he is carrying the HIV virus after a one night stand […]

Apr, 02

Saraband for Dead Lovers **** (1948, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Françoise Rosay, Flora Robson, Peter Bull, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 5058

Directors Basil Dearden and Michael Relph’s attractive 1948 British oddity Saraband for Dead Lovers stars Joan Greenwood as sad young Sophie Dorothea of Celle, the arranged-marriage wife of the effete Prince George Louis of Hanover, […]

Feb, 25

Unfaithfully Yours **** (1948, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence, Rudy Vallee, Kurt Kreuger, Lionel Stander, Edgar Kennedy, Alan Bridge) – Classic Movie Review 4966

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s 1948 screwball marital black comedy is the witty, and often hilarious story of hot-headed British symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter (Rex Harrison), who imagines three ways to deal with his supposedly unfaithful […]

Jan, 30

As Cool as I Am *** (2013, Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann, James Marsden, Claire Danes, Peter Fonda, Jon Tenney, Jeremy Sisto ) – Classic Movie Review 4770

Director Max Mayer’s appealing 2013 bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Sarah Bolger as smart 16-year-old tomboy Lucy Diamond (as in the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) who comes of age in a small town with her […]

Dec, 07

Urban Cowboy ***½ (1980, John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 4675

Co-writer/ director James Bridges’s unfairly neglected 1980 drama ends up as a country music companion piece to Saturday Night Fever, made for discerning adults. It is a thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining vehicle for John Travolta […]

Nov, 20

The Girl on the Train *** (2016, Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Édgar Ramírez, Laura Prepon) – Movie Review

Emily Blunt lands a stonking great star role as the depressed, alcoholic Rachel, divorced a year earlier and fired from her New York PR job, in director Tate Taylor’s murder mystery thriller, based on the novel […]

Oct, 04

Model Shop **** (1969, Gary Lockwood, Anouk Aimée, Alexandra Hay) – Classic Movie Review 4,302

French director Jacques Demy’s first film made in America and in English is hypnotically compelling and shamefully underrated. Demy reunites with Anouk Aimée, who also plays a character named Lola in his debut film Lola […]

Sep, 05

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