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- The Sphinx ** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton) – Classic Movie Review 13,836
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International Velvet *** (1978, Tatum O’Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth, Dinsdale Landen, Sarah Bullen, Richard Warwick, Jeffrey Byron) – Classic Movie Review 2433
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s belated, though still welcome 1978 children’s movie is the sequel to National Velvet (1944) and based on the original 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold. It is, in the words of the title […]
Prefontaine *** (1997, Jared Leto, R Lee Ermey, Ed O’Neill, Amy Locane) – Classic Movie Review 2097
Co-writer/director Steve James’s 1997 sports drama stars the young Jared Leto as the amazingly promising but doomed American athlete Steve Prefontaine in the first out of two simultaneously made biopic films. Prefontaine ran fast and […]
Foxcatcher ***½ (2014, Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave) – Movie Review
Director Bennett Miller’s well-acted, classy and interesting but over-rated biopic tries to get under the skin of real-life Olympic wrestling champion brothers Mark and David Schultz, who are lured by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont into […]
Unbroken **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Treadaway, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review
Unbroken is a gruelling, harrowing and upsetting true-life story of unimaginably appalling wartime suffering. But the film is brilliantly done and another feather in the cap of our little marvel Jack O’Connell. O’Connell hits the […]
Geordie [Wee Geordie] **** (1955, Bill Travers, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 1,450
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s 1955 British film Geordie [Wee Geordie] stars Bill Travers as a Scotsman who becomes an athlete and competes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1955 charmer of a film Geordie […]