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Housekeeping *** (1987, Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill) – Classic Movie Review 9083

Writer-director Bill Forsyth, best known for his whimsical, Scottish comedies such as That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl, moves to the US and delivers a rather dark and disturbing character study with comic touches in […]

Nov, 20

Love & Sex *** (2000, Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich) – Classic Movie Review 8008

Writer-director Valerie Breiman’s delicious 2000 romantic comedy drama Love & Sex stars Famke Janssen and Jon Favreau. Janssen plays a magazine journalist called Kate Welles who ditches her companion at an art exhibition for a painter […]

Jan, 13

That’s Entertainment, Part II ***** (1975, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6295

Director Gene Kelly’s marvellously entertaining 1975 sequel to Jack Haley Jr’s That’s Entertainment! (1974) boasts some more all-time-great musical sequences from the MGM film library. But this time it also includes some non-musical sequences, with […]

Nov, 23

Little Big Man ***** (1970, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 6272

Director Arthur Penn’s classic 1970 epic Western stars Dustin Hoffman, who gives a bravura performance as Jack Crabb, 121-year-old survivor of Little Big Horn, who recounts his tall story as an adopted Cheyenne and buddy […]

Nov, 20

A Separate Peace *** (1972, John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick) – Classic Movie Review 5972

Larry Pearce’s 1972 coming-of-age drama film A Separate Peace films the 1959 novel by John Knowles that tells the delicate, trail-blazing tale of the special friendship of two schoolboy roomies (John Heyl, Parker Stevenson) in […]

Aug, 26

The Solid Gold Cadillac **** (1956, Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, John Williams, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5702

Director Richard Quine’s entertaining 1956 comedy stars the fizzy, utterly delightful Judy Holliday as Laura Partridge, a resting actress and a small shareholder in a big business, owning just 10 shares. She upsets the corporate […]

Jul, 03

Little Man Tate *** (1991, Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Harry Connick Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 5230

Jodie Foster both directs and stars in this engaging 1991 labour-of-love drama as New York unmarried mother Dede Tate, trying to bring up her son Fred who is musically, scientifically and emotionally super-gifted. It is […]

Apr, 02

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