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Compañeros [Vamos a matar, compañeros] **** (1970, Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 10,852

Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1970 Technicolor and Techniscope spaghetti Western film Compañeros [Vamos a matar compañeros] stars Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance and Fernando Rey. It is one of Corbucci’s esteemed and much admired classics, […]

Jan, 31

The Honkers *** (1972, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens) Classic Movie Review 10,563

Director Steve Ihnat’s 1972 film The Honkers is an action comedy drama with a western setting, and stars James Coburn, who is compellingly amiable in a profile of a middle-ageing, philandering rodeo rider, Lew Lathrop. […]

Nov, 19

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

Reefer Madness (1936, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles) – Classic Movie Review 9541

Director Louis J Gasnier’s infamous 1936 Reefer Madness [The Burning Question] [Tell Your Children] [Dope Addict] is a hilariously overstated Thirties warning against the danger of the weed – just one drag of marijuana and […]

Mar, 21

Creepshow 2 *** (1987, George Kennedy, Lois Chiles, Domenick John) – Classic Movie Review 8383

Director Michael Gornick’s 1987 horror anthology sequel Creepshow 2 has three more Stephen King EC Comics-inspired stories adapted in the screenplay by George A Romero, the director of the first Creepshow (1982), and this time […]

Apr, 20

They All Laughed ** (1981, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Patti Hansen, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, Elizabeth Peña) – Classic Movie Review 7792

They All Laughed is a brave, possibly foolhardy title for Peter Bogdanovich’s 1982 screwball romantic comedy, in which there are bubbles in the madcap caper but they largely fall flat. The tale of New York private […]

Nov, 15

Birds of Passage [Pájaros de verano] **** (2018, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez) – Movie Review

José Acosta stars as marijuana trafficker Rapayet, who gives an enormous dowry to marry into an indigenous remote northern Colombian family, who then get deeper and deeper into an all-out war to control the drugs […]

Oct, 17

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