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Woman at War [Kona fer í stríð] **** (2018, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War, Iceland’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards (2018), cheered me up enormously. It is an expertly aimed feel-good movie, delightfully quirky and funny, definitely about something, many things […]

May, 08

Blues Brothers 2000 * (1998, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peoples, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz) – Classic Movie Review 8240

Director John Landis’s 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 is a truly awful, misbegotten, forlorn sequel to the 1980 hit The Blues Brothers, in which Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is freed from jail and reassembles the old […]

Mar, 13

The Glenn Miller Story **** (1954, James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, George Tobias, Barton MacLane, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7876

Director Anthony Mann’s 1954 musical biopic The Glenn Miller Story stars James Stewart, who is ideal casting both as actor and as a Glenn Miller lookalike. Stewart conducts himself on screen with his customary easy-going charm and […]

Dec, 03

Dames ***** (1934, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 951

Director Ray Enright’s 1934 movie takes its place triumphantly, high among Warner Bros’ series of great 30s musicals, and also as one of the greatest movie musicals of all time. It’s most memorable for the […]

Mar, 20

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