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My Dinner with Andre **** (1981, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler) – Classic Movie Review 11,260

Director Louis Malle’s 1981 scripted documentary My Dinner with Andre is a tour de force by writer/stars Wallace Shawn (the actor/ playwright) and Andre Gregory (the theatre director) as the two old friends having a […]

Jun, 02

Eat the Rich * (1987, Al Pillay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,764

Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]

Jan, 07

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ** (1989, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard) – Classic Movie Review 10,649

Lust, murder, food, sex, torture, revenge and cannibalism are on the menu at Le Hollandais Restaurant, for Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Michael Gambon plays a psychotic […]

Dec, 11

Blood on the Sun ** (1945, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 10,605

In 1942 James Cagney left Warner Bros, the studio where he had been so successful, to form his own company with his brother William. So director Frank Lloyd’s 1945 black and white thriller Blood on […]

Nov, 30

The American Success Company *** (1980, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 10,439

Director William Richert’s 1980 The American Success Company [Success] [American Success] is a peculiar but sometimes funny black comedy about the inexperienced but ambitious son of a credit-card tycoon who decides to change his luck […]

Oct, 20

Proof **** (1991, Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe) – Classic Movie Review 10,033

Writer-director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1991 Proof stars Hugo Weaving as Martin, a blind 30-something photographer who is cared for by housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot), who behaves spitefully towards him when he does not return her love. A […]

Jul, 13

Serenade ** (1956, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 9764

James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]

May, 14

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