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Sugar and Spice *** (2001, Marley Shelton, James Marsden, Marla Sokoloff, Mena Suvari, Melissa George) – Classic Movie Review 4132

Marley Shelton stars as a pregnant cheerleader who recruits her fellow team dancing girls to rob a bank so she can support her burgeoning family. Director Francine McDougall’s funny 2001 teen comedy has an amusing […]

Aug, 06

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls ½ (1995, Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo, Tommy Davidson) – Classic Movie Review 4119

Jim Carrey’s pet detective Ace Ventura heads for the hills to find an abducted sacred white bat and keep the peace between African tribes, in writer-director Steve Oedekerk’s defiantly non-PC, non-funny 1995 sequel. Exuberant but repellent, this […]

Aug, 02

A Place in the Sun **** (1951, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 3351

Director George Stevens’s then daring 1951 film of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy was once greatly acclaimed and admired but now it has faded and is unfairly overlooked. The overfree screenplay is based on […]

Feb, 13

The Great Lie **** (1941, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2736

Director Edmund Goulding’s polished 1941 drama The Great Lie is another of the outstanding movies from the prime of Bette Davis, then reigning queen of the Warner Bros studio. The Great Lie is a great […]

Jul, 24

Second Coming **** (2014, Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis) – Movie Review

There’s good acting everywhere in debut writer-director Debbie Tucker Green’s notable slice-of-life drama about the struggles of a lower middle-class black family living in south London. Nadine Marshall is excellent as Jax, a counter worker […]

Jun, 04

The L-Shaped Room **** (1962, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Emlyn Williams, Nanette Newman, Patricia Phoenix, Avis Bunnage) – Classic Movie Review 2427

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film is a fragrant slice of Sixties London kitchen-sink life. It is one of the highspots of the brief flowering of British Sixties New Wave cinema. But it has international French star […]

Apr, 26

No Man of Her Own **** (1950, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, Lyle Bettger) – Classic Movie Review 2258

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1950 movie is an engrossing, complex and powerfully acted mix of film noir thriller and romantic melodrama based on a splendidly far-fetched crime novel called I Married a Dead Man by Cornell […]

Mar, 13

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