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The Aeronauts ** (2019, Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Tim McInnerny, Anne Reid, Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez, Phoebe Fox, Robert Glenister, Phoebe Fox, Rebecca Front) – Movie Review

The excellent Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne are fine in The Aeronauts (2019) as Victorian daredevil hot air balloon pilot Amelia Wren and pioneering weather scientist (meteorologist) James Glaisher, and this is a handsome, costly […]

Nov, 24

Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] * (1944, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Jacqueline de Wit, Claudia Dell) – Classic Movie Review 9054

Director Phil Rosen’s 1944 thriller Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] [Meeting at Midnight] is a weak Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) mystery about the Oriental Detective probing a séance killing. Toler carries on regardless, […]

Nov, 04

Mother, Jugs & Speed *** (1976, Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Bruce Davison, L Q Jones, Larry Hagman) – Classic Movie Review 8465

The 1976 comedy drama film Mother, Jugs and Speed stars the unlikely trio of Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel as paramedics working for a privately owned Los Angeles ambulance company. Director Peter Yates’s […]

May, 14

The Eyes, the Mouth [Gli Occhi, la Bocca] ** (1982, Lou Castel, Ángela Molina, Emmanuelle Riva) – Classic Movie Review 8377

Writer-director Marco Bellocchio’s interesting if rather disappointing 1982 drama The Eyes, The Mouth [Gli Occhi, la Bocca] reunites the star (Lou Castel) and the director of the 1965 Fists in the Pocket (which the actor […]

Apr, 18

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11

Play It As It Lays ** (1972, Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke) – Classic Movie Review 7795

Director Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting and sincere but depressing and ultimately disappointing drama Play It As It Lays is based on Joan Didion’s novel, and stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and Tammy Grimes. Deception, divorce, […]

Nov, 16

Miss Julie [Fröken Julie] **** (1951, Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 7712

Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Swedish classic Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a masterly reworking for cinema of August Strindberg’s world renowned play, in which the moneyed Miss Julie (Anita Björk) plays with her man-servant Jean […]

Oct, 28

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