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The Bodyguard ** (1992, Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 7119

Director Mick Jackson’s hokey and unconvincing but highly popular 1992 romantic thriller The Bodyguard stars Kevin Costner as former US Secret Service agent Frank Farmer, who is hired by her manager as the bodyguard for pop […]

Jun, 05

Dreaming of Joseph Lees * (1999, Rupert Graves, Samatha Morton, Frank Finlay, Lee Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7062

In Fifties Somerset, England, Eva (Samatha Morton) is looking after her forgetful dad (Frank Finlay) and living with her crazy farmer lover Harry (Lee Ross), but loves her childhood sweetheart Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves). Director […]

May, 16

Coup de Torchon [Clean Slate] **** (1981, Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 7055

Co-writer/ director Bertrand Tavernier’s 1981 French crime drama stars Philippe Noiret, who gives an excellent in-depth performance as Lucien Cordier, a mild cop who commits revenge murders in 1930s French West Africa. Tavernier’s taut black-comedy […]

May, 14

Pandora’s Box [Die Büchse der Pandora] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Gustav Diessl, Alice Roberts, Sigfried Arno) – Classic Movie Review 3805

The now legendary Louise Brooks thrillingly stars as the fatal charmer Lulu in Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s dazzling, erotic 1929 German silent melodrama film adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s theatre plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der […]

Jun, 04

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! [Átame!] **** (1989, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Loles León, Francisco Rabal, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3576

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s exuberant, hard-hitting 1989 Spanish art-movie romantic thriller stars Antonio Banderas as Ricky, a young stud who is freed from a psychiatric ward of a mental hospital and tries unorthodox methods to woo a […]

Apr, 16

Vampire Circus *** (1972, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Lynne Frederick, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Seal, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 3157

Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]

Dec, 15

The Hunchback of Notre Dame *** (1996, voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline) – Classic Movie Review 2665

It’s perhaps a bold and surprise project to adapt the 1831 Victor Hugo classic into an animated feature. But directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s 1996 effort proves an effective, extremely well-done, highly entertaining Disney […]

Jul, 04

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