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The Secret Garden *** (1949, Margaret O’Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 9259

Director Fred M Wilcox’s 1949 The Secret Garden stars Margaret O’Brien as little orphan Mary Lennox, who lives with grouchy uncle Archibald Craven (Herbert Marshall) and makes everything in the garden come up roses. She […]

Jan, 14

Sweet November *** (1968, Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 8,814

The sweet 1968 romance film Sweet November stars Sandy Dennis as a kooky New Yorker who has a new boyfriend every month to pack as much into her doomed life as possible. Mr November is […]

Aug, 10

Scram! *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer, Vivien Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 7818

Director Raymond McCarey’s 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reel comedy short film Scram! is cleverly written and carefully constructed, and of course expertly played, though overall it is maybe only mildly funny. However, it […]

Nov, 21

The Court Jester ***** (1955, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 4576

The five-star 1955 classic comedy adventure The Court Jester from writer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank is the one Danny Kaye film to take with you to a desert island. It is a deliriously carefree […]

Nov, 02

Miles Ahead *** (2015, Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director/star Don Cheadle’s labour of love biopic is a free-wheeling, impressionistic exploration of the life and music of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991). This is Cheadle’s director début […]

Apr, 23

Spider **** (2002, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 1747

Ralph Fiennes is brilliant as the mentally ill Dennis Clegg, nicknamed ‘Spider’ by his mother (Miranda Richardson). Now in his thirties, he is released after 20 years in a clinic to Lynn Redgrave’s depressingly seedy London boarding […]

Oct, 06

Identity **** (2003, John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Rebecca De Mornay, Alfred Molina, Pruitt Taylor Vince) – Classic Movie Review 775

Ex-cop and now driver Ed (John Cusack), tough cop Rhodes (Ray Liotta), escort Paris (Amanda Peet) and bitchy movie star Caroline Suzanne (Rebecca De Mornay) are among ten strangers, stranded in a rainstorm at an […]

Jan, 30

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