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Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing **** (1973, Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4037

Young Maggie Smith and younger Timothy Bottoms star together in producer-director Alan J Pakula’s truly sweet and charming little 1973 romantic drama. Smith stars as the emotionally repressed, older English spinster Lila Fisher and Bottoms […]

Jul, 17

Phenomenon *** (1996, John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 3742

Director Jon Turteltaub’s emotional 1996 fantasy romantic drama proved one of John Travolta’s least successful but more intriguing Nineties movies, in which he plays a small-town garage mechanic who develops amazing mental powers. If the […]

May, 22

Now Is Good **½ (2012, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole, Josef Altin) – Movie Review

Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]

Nov, 06

Camille ***** (1936, Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 1985

  Director George Cukor’s 1937 vintage tragic romance movie stars Greta Garbo, perfectly cast and at her most luminous finest. After two famous classic silent movie versions in 1921 and 1927, finally there is a talkie […]

Dec, 20

Mood Indigo **** (2013, Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh) – Movie Review

Romain Duris stars as wealthy Parisian inventor Colin, who lives an idyllic bachelor life with meals coming alive on the plate and table, and good food served by his trusty in-house chef, Nicolas (Omar Sly). His dream […]

Jul, 31

Clear and Present Danger *** (1994, Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Benjamin Bratt, Thora Birch) – Classic Movie Review 728

Two years after his hit with Patriot Games in 1992, Harrison Ford reprises his role as CIA analyst Jack Ryan in director Phillip Noyce’s pounding 1994 action thriller, with some stupendous action scenes, based on […]

Jan, 20

The Royal Tenenbaums **** (2001, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Seymour Cassel, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 609

Gene Hackman won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for his high-energy, funny turn as Royal Tenenbaum, the grand daddy of a very odd, dysfunctional family. After years away, he returns […]

Jan, 02

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