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My Geisha ** (1962, Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yôko Tani) – Classic Movie Review 11,257

‘It’s the WACKIEST HOAX That Ever Turned the Screen Hilarious!’ Director Jack Cardiff’s 1962 My Geisha stars Shirley MacLaine as famous movie star actress Lucy Dell who goes to Japan and masquerades as a geisha […]

Jun, 01

Give a Girl a Break *** (1953, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Helen Wood) – Classic Movie Review 9987

Director Stanley Donen’s 1953 MGM ‘Breezy, Teasy Color by TECHNICOLOR Musical’ film Give a Girl a Break stars doughty dames Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion and Helen Wood, each with their own champion, who vie for […]

Jul, 01

The World’s Greatest Lover *** (1977, Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 9230

Writer-producer-director-star Gene Wilder goes every which way for laughs in his 1977 Twenties Hollywood send-up The World’s Greatest Lover – and raises quite a high score of them. He plays Milwaukee baker Rudy Hickman who […]

Jan, 06

Mr Saturday Night ** (1992, Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner) – Classic Movie Review 8775

Beware comedians with a sentimental bent who don the latex to play old folk! Billy Crystal is at it in his 1992 comedy Mr Saturday Night, as an ancient TV comic called Buddy Young Jr, […]

Jul, 29

I’ll Do Anything ** (1994, Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Whittni Wright, Tracey Ullman, Joely Richardson, Julie Kavner, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 8448

Writer-director James L Brooks’s 1994 romantic comedy drama I’ll Do Anything went awry and was a troubled production. It was made as a musical until test audiences rejected it, and the last-minute cutting has damaged […]

May, 08

Cold War [Zimna wojna] **** (2018, Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn) – Movie Review

Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s beautiful, passionate 2018 romantic drama Cold War [Zimna wojna] is a doomed love story about two mismatched people, set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris against the background of the Fifties Cold War. It is a […]

Dec, 10

Dead of Winter *** (1987, Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes) – Classic Movie Review 7311

Director Arthur Penn’s enjoyable 1986 thriller Dead of Winter stars Mary Steenburgen (in one of three roles) as a struggling actress called Katie McGovern, who is lured by the promise of an audition and possible work […]

Jul, 19

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