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Woman of the Year **** (1942, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 3852

Director George Stevens’s intelligent, thoughtful and amusing 1942 romantic comedy stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their first screen partnership that was to last 25 years and produce nine movies. The duo kick up […]

Jun, 13

The Seventh Victim **** (1943, Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Jean Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3779

The legendary chiller king Val Lewton produces director Mark Robson’s deliciously brooding and sinister 1943 film noir-style melodrama about a group of Satanists in Greenwich Village uncovered by the heroine Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), after she arrives […]

May, 29

I Love Trouble ** (1994, Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 3694

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte star as Chicago newspaper reporter rivals Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett, who, instead of competing, reluctantly link up after a suspicious train crash to investigate the mystery. Co-writer/director Charles Shyer’s […]

May, 10

Indiscreet **** (1958, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, David Kossoff, Phyllis Calvert, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 3083

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal star pairing in Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, who put polish on the piece. Grant plays […]

Nov, 23

Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom] ***** (1929) – Classic Movie Review 2749

‘I am the camera eye. I am the mechanical eye. I am the machine which shows you the world as only I can see it.’ Director Dziga Vertov’s influential, light-hearted, fascinating 1929 Russian abstract documentary […]

Jul, 29

Poltergeist III ** (1988, Heather O’Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 2501

Co-writer/director Gary Sherman’s 1988 third episode brings back only Heather O’Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein from the original two movies. JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson having bailed out of part 3, their haunted screen daughter […]

May, 19

My Best Friend’s Wedding **** (1997, Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett) – Classic Movie Review 771

Director P J Hogan’s delicious 1997 romcom finally provided a huge hit again for Julia Roberts, turning in a very decent comedy performance as a devious journalist who decides she wants her best buddy (Dermot […]

Jan, 29

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