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Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,366

Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]

Jul, 04

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? *** (1983, Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 8956

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s tasty 1983 comedy romance Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a whimsically amusing, talky, plotless film from the admired film-maker, with starring Karen Black as edgy Zee, taking up with hypochondriac divorcee […]

Oct, 01

The Vampire’s Ghost * (1945, John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers, Adele Mara, Roy Barcroft) – Classic Movie Review 5086

John Abbott stars as an old African gangster named Webb Fallon who is running a bar in a small African port. But he is really a vampire cursed as undead in the 16th century, in director […]

Mar, 01

Born To Be Blue ***½ (2015, Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Rennie, Stephen McHattie) – Movie Review

A portrait in wrecked, crumpled charm, Ethan Hawke gives a strong and powerful performance as trumpeter Chet Baker in writer-director Robert Budreau‘s 2015 story of the tormented heroin-addicted jazz legend’s musical comeback in the late Sixties. It […]

Aug, 01

Kids *** (1995, Leo Fitzpatrick, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Justin Pierce) – Classic Movie Review 1370

Written by Harmony Korine, director Larry Clark’s dark and disturbing 1995 film is highly controversial and gained itself a lot of notoriety. It has its good points as a bold and vibrant piece of Nineties […]

Jun, 28

The Bank Dick ***** (1940, W C Fields, Grady Sutton, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 1271

The old sourpuss W C Fields invigorates the caustic vintage 1940 comedy The Bank Dick. He also wrote the nifty screenplay under the daft pen name of Mahatma Kane Jeeves. The ever-grouchy, hard-drinking old sourpuss W […]

May, 31

Home for the Holidays **** (1995, Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr, Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, Claire Danes) – Classic Movie Review 432

Holly Hunter stars as a sacked art gallery worker Claudia Larson, a single mom with a teenage daughter Kitt (Claire Danes), who joins her family for Thanksgiving and quickly regrets it. She’s had a really […]

Nov, 20

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