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The Feminine Touch *** (1941, Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis, Van Heflin, Donald Meek, Henry Daniell, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,918

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1941 MGM film The Feminine Touch is a fairly smart, brisk and funny romantic comedy with several very good actors and two inimitable star players in Don Ameche and […]

Feb, 09

Uncensored ** (1942, Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 11,876

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1942 British World War Two wartime film Uncensored is based on the 1937 novel by Oscar Millard, is set in occupied Belgium, and stars Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. André Delange […]

Jan, 23

Curtain Call [It All Came True] *** (1998, James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Sam Shepard, Buck Henry, Frank Whaley) – Classic Movie Review 11,384

Curtain up on director Peter Yates’s slick and entertaining 1998 supernatural romantic comedy Curtain Call spotlighting a hapless publisher (James Spader) who buys a long-uninhabited Manhattan townhouse and is haunted by the bickering ghosts of […]

Jul, 12

Ever Since Eve * (1937, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,140

In 1937, the 40-year-old Marion Davies filmed her last movie, director Lloyd Bacon’s screwball romantic comedy Ever Since Eve, in which she plays an attractive young woman fed up having to quit job after job […]

Aug, 06

The Assassination Bureau *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, Warren Mitchell, Clive Revill, Beryl Reid, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 8167

Director Basil Dearden’s 1968 British movie The Assassination Bureau stars Diana Rigg as English newswoman Sonya Winter, who sets out to expose a Russian criminal Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)’s globetrotting band of terminators by romancing […]

Feb, 24

Can You Ever Forgive Me? **** (2018, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone) – Movie Review

Melissa McCarthy is now officially forgiven for Tammy, Spy and The Heat. Her winning performance as complicated alcoholic lesbian forger Lee Israel in director Marielle Heller’s comedy drama biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me? is the cornerstone […]

Oct, 19

When Ladies Meet **** (1933, Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7505

Director Harry Beaumont’s crackling 1933 MGM classic romantic comedy drama When Ladies Meet is the first of two film versions of Rachel Crothers’s sophisticated 1932 play, smartly shot in black and white by Ray June […]

Aug, 27

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