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Flawless **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 2020

Writer-director Joel Schumacher’s rather weird and wonderful 1999 comedy drama hits the spot, a success in large part to do with its two star performances. Though both cast to type – just imagine if they’d […]

Dec, 30

The Climax *** (1944, Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey) – Classic Movie Review 1929

The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]

Dec, 07

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1,332

Bette Davis stars in the 1945 drama film The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher who decides to set up a school to teach basic education in a Welsh coal […]

Jun, 17

Swingers ****½ (1996, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Patrick Van Horn, Ron Livingston, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 981

Director Doug Liman’s fresh and 1996 funny comedy focuses on four madly anxious, self-deluded swingers (Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Patrick Van Horn, Ron Livingston) who head for Las Vegas in search of a good time […]

Mar, 25

Little Voice **** (1998, Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 418

Written and directed by Mark Herman, this is an uneasy transfer to film of a great night out at London’s National Film Theatre – Jim Cartwright’s musical play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. […]

Nov, 17

Mildred Pierce ***** (1945, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 375

Joan Crawford won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1945 American melodrama film noir Mildred Pierce. Ann Blyth plays the scheming Veda Pierce in her breakout role. Director Michael Curtiz’s 1945 classic Mildred Pierce is both a great […]

Nov, 06

Music and Lyrics **** (2007, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Scott Porter, Haley Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 372

In what was his best film for ages, Hugh Grant also got his best role in ages in 2007 as a breezy, washed-up singer called Alex Fletcher. He lives comfortably and dully in Manhattan from […]

Nov, 06

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