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Colonel Bogey ** (1948, voice of Jack Train, Mary Jerrold, Jane Barrett) – Classic Movie Review 11,187

Director Terence Fisher’s second film is the 1948 British black and white fantasy Colonel Bogey starring the voice of Jack Train and Mary Jerrold, Jane Barrett and John Stone. It was shot as a second […]

May, 09

La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding * (1985, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi) – Classic Movie Review 10,426

Director Georges Lautner’s 1985 comedy second sequel La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding [La cage aux folles III: ‘Elles’ se marient] is third time unlucky for the gay duo, in which drag queen Albin […]

Oct, 16

The Passion of Anna [En Passion] *** (1969, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 9924

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s tormented 1969 Swedish drama film The Passion of Anna [En Passion] is hardly considered one of Bergman’s greatest or most successful works, thanks perhaps to a self-imposed burden of heavy weight it […]

Jun, 17

Period of Adjustment *** (1962, Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Mabel Albertson, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 7043

Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]

May, 12

Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] **** (2017, Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria) – Movie Review

CUSTODY. First rate: totally gripping, disturbing and credible throughout. French writer-director Xavier Legrand’s engrossing and powerful debut feature comes to UK cinemas on 23 March 2018. Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] is first rate: totally gripping, disturbing, […]

May, 09

The Cranes Are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] **** (1957, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev ) – Classic Movie Review 5618

Producer-director Mikhail Kalatozov’s simple, direct and satisfying 1957 Soviet poetic romance boasts splendidly atmospheric direction and a marvellous central performance by Tatyana Samoylova, the great-niece of Konstantin Stanislavski (January 1863 – 7 August 1938), the seminal Russian theatre […]

Jun, 16

Couples Retreat *** (2009, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Faizon Love, Kali Hawk, Jean Reno) – Classic Movie Review 4628

Director Peter Billingsley’s 2009 Couples Retreat might only be a formulaic, lowbrow comedy but, with its first-rate cast and decent premise, it knows how to get you laughing. Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell play a troubled […]

Nov, 10

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