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As Cool as I Am *** (2013, Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann, James Marsden, Claire Danes, Peter Fonda, Jon Tenney, Jeremy Sisto ) – Classic Movie Review 4770

Director Max Mayer’s appealing 2013 bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Sarah Bolger as smart 16-year-old tomboy Lucy Diamond (as in the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) who comes of age in a small town with her […]

Dec, 07

Walking Tall ***½ (1973, Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jnr, Rosemary Murphy, Leif Garrett, Lurene Tuttle, Dawn Lyn) – Classic Movie Review 4,708

Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker enjoys his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall. Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker gets one of his best roles and gives a sterling performance as real-life Southern sheriff […]

Nov, 27

Fallen Angel **** (1945, Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 4,687

Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Alice Faye, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Dana Andrews as slick, down-on-his-luck […]

Nov, 23

S. Darko * (2009, Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, James Lafferty, Ed Westwick, Jackson Rathbone, John Hawkes, Elizabeth Berkley) – Classic Movie Review 4575

Director Chris Fisher’s unpopular and unsuccessful 2009 sequel to Donnie Darko (2001), S. Darko, centres unprofitably on Sam (Daveigh Chase), Donnie’s younger sister, and her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan), who get entangled in a dangerous […]

Nov, 01

To Each His Own **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver, Mary Anderson, Philip Terry, Bill Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 4179

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1946 drama stars Olivia de Havilland in one of her best performances, winning her first Best Actress Oscar as an unmarried mother who regrets giving away her son (John Lund in his […]

Aug, 15

Mississippi Burning **** (1988, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 4,146

The burning 1988 thriller film Mississippi Burning stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South in 1964. […]

Aug, 09

Paris Trout *** (1991, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 3739

Based on Pete Dexter’s novel, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s opulently filmed 1991 Deep South thriller, set in a small Georgia town in the 1950s, is a savage and uncomfortable experience. It concedes centre stage to Dennis Hopper’s […]

May, 22

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