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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4,817

This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller film What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? stars Geraldine Page as an Arizona widow who has a bad habit of bumping off the home help for their […]

Dec, 29

Autumn Sonata [Höstsonaten] ***** (1978, Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Halvar Björk, Lena Nyman, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 4800

  In 1978, writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman found a surprise backer in Lord Lew Grade’s ITC for his long-awaited teaming with his namesake Ingrid Bergman. At the time British producer Lord Grade was trying to finance […]

Dec, 21

The Gift ***½ (2000, Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Michael Jeter, Giovanni Ribisi, Kim Dickens, Gary Cole, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4792

Keanu Reeves grabs his chance to show his bad side and to do a spot of acting, which he does quite impressively. In this one he plays a really unpleasant piece of work called Donnie […]

Dec, 18

The Train Robbers *** (1973, John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Bobby Vinton) – Classic Movie Review 4592

Burt Kennedy, the script-writer of Budd Boetticher’s classic Fifties Westerns, wrote and directed this 1973 Western for a rather plump and elderly-looking John Wayne, who, as gunhand Lane, leads a gang taken on by worthy […]

Nov, 05

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

Nowhere to Run *½ (1993, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 4404

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as an escaped convict called Sam Gillen hiding out with lovely young widow Clydie Anderson (Arquette) and her little son Mookie (Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay) and young daughter Bree (Tiffany Taubman). While Sam […]

Sep, 24

The Stepfather **** (1987, Terry O’Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack) – Classic Movie Review 4402

The 1987 American psychological horror thriller The Stepfather is an effective, excellent, creepy chiller from a Donald E Westlake story. Terry O’Quinn stars as an identity-assuming serial killer who marries a widow with a teenage daughter. Director […]

Sep, 24

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