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The Horror of Frankenstein ** (1970, Ralph Bates, Kate O’Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dave Prowse, Dennis Price, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 2777

Ralph Bates stars in The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) as a reborn Dr Victor Frankenstein, the role having been played by Peter Cushing five times previously in Hammer horror movies. Victor ruthlessly arranges the death […]

Aug, 03

Theorem [Teorema] ***½ (1968, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli) – Classic Movie Review 2269

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts young Terence Stamp effectively as a good-looking stranger who satisfies all the members of a wealthy Milan family in his gently satisfying and intriguing 1968 poetic drama Theorem [Teorema]. The […]

Mar, 15

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

Play Misty for Me **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills) – Classic Movie Review 2078

The 1971 psychological thriller Play Misty for Me is a carefully crafted, tense and exciting chiller full of creepy sequences. It represents an auspicious directorial début by the ambitious, 41-year-old Clint Eastwood, effortlessly making the transition […]

Jan, 16

Everyone Says I Love You **** (1996, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1800

In writer-director Woody Allen’s 1996 comedy, Everyone Says ‘I Loved Making This Movie’ but No One Says’ I Can Sing’. Joe (Allen) fancies pretty woman Von (Julia Roberts) in Venice in this quite delicious musical […]

Nov, 03

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding *** (2012, Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, James Norton) – Movie Review

It’s England one winter day between the wars and a lovely, posh young woman is about to be married — but something or rather somebody from her past is going to get in the way […]

Sep, 21

Girl with a Pearl Earring **** (2003, Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1665

Director Peter Webber’s civilised 2003 drama stars Scarlett Johansson as the Dutch maid Griet who becomes the model for 17th-century artist Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), played by Colin Firth. Olivia Hetreed‘s literate screenplay for this highly […]

Sep, 12

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