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Night Must Fall *** (1964, Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 6631

The young Albert Finney stars as the psychopathic live-in handyman Danny. in director Karel Reisz’s 1964 British black and white film remake of the renowned old Emlyn Williams horror-thriller theatre success from 1935, Night Must […]

Jan, 31

Psycho II **** (1983, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5862

Director Richard Franklin’s suspenseful 1983 first sequel to Psycho (1960), set 22 years later, is an unexpected success. Vera Miles is back as Lila Loomis, whose sister Marion (Janet Leigh) was of course one of the […]

Aug, 06

To Rome with Love *** (2012, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5791

Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]

Jul, 19

Hysteria ** (1965, Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni) – Classic Movie Review 5653

‘TERRIFYING SUSPENSE …it will shock you out of your seat!’ The 1965 Hysteria is the third and last – and least – of director Freddie Francis’s enjoyable Psycho-esque Hammer Horror psychological mystery thriller trilogy, after Paranoiac (1963) […]

Jun, 22

The Lords of Discipline ***½ (1983, David Keith, Robert Prosky, G D Spradlin, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 5400

British director Franc Roddam confidently tackles this 1983 American military school drama with a tough surface and a powerful theme: a condemnation of false manly values and of racism at the heart of America’s institutions. […]

May, 06

The Truth about Charlie ½ (2003, Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins) Classic Movie Review 5349

Co-writer/ director Jonathan Demme’s appalling 2003 movie is a catastrophic remake of the sparkling 1963 thriller Charade, with Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton doing nothing whatever to battle their bizarre miscasting in the old Cary […]

Apr, 27

The Sense of an Ending **** (2017, Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Billy Howle, Freya Mavor, Matthew Goode) – Movie Review

Jim Broadbent is outstanding in a big, fat, meaty star role he is ideal for, in a moving and haunting 2017 film adaptation of Julian Barnes’s 2011 Booker Prize-winning bestseller The Sense of an Ending. […]

Apr, 12

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