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- Born to Be Loved *** (1959, Carol Morris, Vera Vague, Hugo Haas, and Dick Kallman) – Classic Movie Review 14,027
- Please Turn Over ** (1959, Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Julia Lockwood, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 14,026
- Three Days to Live [Trois jours à vivre] ** (1957, Daniel Gélin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Georges Flamant) – Classic Movie Review 14,025
- Le cave se rebiffe [The Counterfeiters] [The Counterfeiters of Paris] **** (1961, Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Martine Carol, Franck Villard, Maurice Biraud, Françoise Rosay) – Classic Movie Review 14,024
- House of Boys *** (2009, Layke Anderson, Benn Northover, Udo Kier, Stephen Fry, Steven Webb) – Classic Movie Review 14,023
- Dry Wind [Vento Seco] ** (2020, Leandro Faria Lelo, Allan Jacinto Santana, Renata Carvalho, Rafael Teóphilo) – Classic Movie Review 14,022
- Black Patch *** (1957, George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman, Leo Gordon, Sebastian Cabot, Lynn Cartwright) – Classic Movie Review 14,021
- Sorry Angel [Plaire, aimer et courir vite] ****(Pierre Deladonchamps, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Podalydès, Thomas Gonzalez, 2018) – Classic Movie Review 14,020
- Date with Disaster *** (1957, Tom Drake, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Maurice Kaufmann, Michael Golden, Richard Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 14,019
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Elmer Gantry **** (1960, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 5688
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s barnstorming 1960 drama triumphed at the Academy Awards with three Oscar wins – for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. […]
Crimes of Passion [China Blue] *** (1984, Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 5449
Director Ken Russell pulls off a precarious tightrope trick over the pit of bad taste thanks to his unique pictorial style and the audacity of his actors’ performances in his 1984 thriller. Kathleen Turner stars […]
The Apostle **** (1997, Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Farrah Fawcett) – Classic Movie Review 5401
Writer-director-star Robert Duvall’s 1997 drama is extraordinary, motored by Duvall’s barnstormingly powerful performance as an extremely egotistical religious man, the Texas preacher Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey, who sets himself above everything and everybody. His life falls […]
Dirty Dingus Magee *** (1970, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Jack Elam, Lois Nettleton, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Harry Carey Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 4865
Western expert producer-director Burt Kennedy’s roistering, boisterous 1970 B-movie-style Western finds its star Frank Sinatra enjoying himself in an unusually very broad performance as a dopey outlaw. That would be Dirty Dingus Billy Magee. With good performers […]
Brimstone **** (2016, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington, Carice van Houten) – Movie Review
Guy Pearce (now 49) has a grand old time as The Reverend, the apparently unstoppable vengeful preacher villain of Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s incredibly powerful, awe-inspiring epic 2016 Western. The movie is a real wow! So is […]
The Birth of a Nation *** (2016, Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley) – Movie Review
Writer-director Nate Parker’s 2016 biographical drama tells the true story of Nat Turner, born into slavery, but who becomes literate and a preacher in the antebellum American South of Virginia in 1831. Nat preaches to his fellow slaves, encouraging them […]
Wise Blood ****½ (1979, Brad Dourif, John Huston, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 4121
Director John Huston’s brilliant 1979 film version of Flannery O’Connor’s dramatic Deep South tale is nothing short of inspired. In arguably still his best performance to date, Brad Dourif gives a brilliant portrait of a […]