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Melody [S.W.A.L.K.] ** (1971, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Roy Kinnear, Sheila Steafel, Hilda Barry, Kate Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5038

Jack Wild and Mark Lester, the two young stars of Oliver!, reunite to much less effect for director Waris Hussein’s now very dated 1971 anti-establishment comedy romantic drama, with an original story and screenplay written […]

Feb, 21

Cast a Dark Shadow *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4984

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1955 British thriller stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, and Kay Walsh. With John Cresswell’s screenplay based on the play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green, this is a stagey and creaky but still […]

Feb, 16

Loving **** (2016, Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols tells the compelling and moving true story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, and their ground-breaking legal challenge of their arrest for their marriage in Virginia. The movie is really well handled and, […]

Jan, 31

The Patricia Neal Story *** (1981, Dirk Bogarde, Glenda Jackson, Mildred Dunnock, Ken Kercheval, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 4872

Dirk Bogarde is tempted out of retirement for his first TV movie (one of only three that he did) as children’s author Roald Dahl, paired effectively with Jackson (also her TV movie debut) as his […]

Jan, 10

Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] *** (1949, Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth) – Classic Movie Review 4836

Director Ingmar Bergman’s intriguing, well-detailed early 1949 movie Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] still has a strong emotional pull but its appeal is mainly for his diehard fans who want to be completist. Eva Henning […]

Jan, 02

Heartburn *** (1986, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels) – Classic Movie Review 4828

Producer-director Mike Nichols’s engrossing 1986 movie memorably stars Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in their prime. They make a predictably electric star pairing in a serious comedy drama based on Nora Ephron’s best-selling semi-autobiographical novel […]

Dec, 30

Autumn Leaves **** (1956, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Ruth Donnelly, Shepperd Strudwick, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4,801

Joan Crawford stars as a middle-aged typist who takes a crazy decision to marry a younger man (Cliff Robertson) she barely knows, in the 1956 melodrama film Autumn Leaves. Joan Crawford stars as Millicent ‘Milly’ […]

Dec, 21

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