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The Birthday Present *** (1957, Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms, Jack Watling, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 11,330

Director Pat Jackson’s 1957 drama The Birthday Present stars Tony Britton as British toy salesman Simon Scott who finds his life, career and marriage heading disastrously downwards after he is convicted for six months of […]

Jun, 21

Desperate Characters *** (1971, Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 10,247

Writer-director Frank D Gilroy’s engrossing 1971 drama Desperate Characters stars Shirley MacLaine in a very remarkable performance as Sophie Bentwood, a depressed, frigid New York housewife living in the East Side suburbs, married to the […]

Aug, 31

We Think the World of You *** (1988, Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Liz Smith, Max Wall) – Classic Movie Review 9944

Director Colin Gregg’s provocative 1988 British comedy drama We Think the World of You stars Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. J R Ackerley’s moving novel about a middle-aged gay man, Frank Meadows, and his loving […]

Jun, 21

Juste avant la nuit [Just Before Nightfall] **** (1971, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer, Jean Carmet, Celia, Clelia Matania) – Classic Movie Review 9553

The 1971 French movie Juste Avant la Nuit [Just Before Nightfall] is a resonant, meticulously made, richly satisfying Claude Chabrol psychological crime thriller. Michel Bouquet stars as the slimy and pathetic advertising executive Charles Masson, […]

Mar, 24

Mrs Miniver **** (1942, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Richard Ney, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3,128

The 1942 patriotic tearjerker film Mrs Miniver about an English family coping with World War Two won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for  Greer Garson’s idealised average English middle-class housewife. […]

Dec, 04

Five Easy Pieces ***** (1970, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, William Challee, Ralph Waite) – Classic Movie Review 2877

Co-story-writer/producer/director Bob Rafelson’s greatly admired 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is stupendous as Robert Eroica Dupea, a middle-class musician drop-out who, along […]

Sep, 03

Polyester **** (1981, Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Mink Stole) – Classic Movie Review 1,525

John Waters edges towards the mainstream but has no intention of going respectable, in the hilarious 1981 satirical black comedy film Polyester. Divine gives a brilliant masterclass in outrageous overacting as Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw.  […]

Aug, 08

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