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- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
- Death in Buenos Aires [Muerte en Buenos Aires] *** (2014, Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella) – Classic Movie Review 12,884
- The Last Stop in Yuma County **** (2023, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr, Connor Jones, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett) – Classic Movie Review 12,883
- Ripley ***** (2024, Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn) – Classic Movie Review 12,882
- The History Boys **** (2006, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey) – Classic Movie Review 12,881
- John and Julie *** (1955, Colin Gibson, Leslie Dudley, Moira Lister, Noelle Middelton, Constance Cummings, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sidney James, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 12,880
- Double Exposure * (1954, John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 12,879
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It’s a Wonderful World **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 7916
‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]
The Guilty [Den skyldige] *** (2018, Jakob Cedergren, voice of Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy, dark and claustrophobic Danish noir thriller. It is set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre, […]
East Side of Heaven *** (1939, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7391
Director David Butler’s nice but only middling 1939 Universal Pictures black and white musical comedy with songs East Side of Heaven stars Bing Crosby as a crooning cabbie called Denny Martin, who is surrogate dad to […]
The Deadly Trap [La maison sous les arbres] ** (1971, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins) – Classic Movie Review 7014
Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]
Back Street **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 7,000
The 1941 romantic drama film Back Street is arguably the best and most romantic of the three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman’s love for a married man. A guaranteed […]
Game Night *** (2018, Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen) – Movie Review
Atoning for their horrible 2105 effort Vacation, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are joint directors of the surprisingly fun and funny crime black comedy Game Night, in which a group of friends who meet for game nights […]
All the Money in the World *** (2017, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer) – Movie Review
John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) has All the Money in the World but won’t cough up the $17 million ransom his daughter-in-law Gail (Michelle Williams) needs for the ransom to spring his 16-year-old grandson Jean Paul Getty III […]