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Murder by Television ** (1935, Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntley Gordon, George Meeker, Henry Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 11,628

Professor James Houghland: ‘I thought that television should be something more than just another form of amusement.’ Director Clifford Sanforth’s 1935 low-budget old B-feature thriller Murder by Television [The Houghland Murder Case] stars Bela Lugosi, […]

Oct, 04

Meet Mr Lucifer ** (1953, Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Gordon Jackson, Kay Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 11,211

‘A Devil-May-Care Joker From Ealing Studios’: Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British black and white Ealing Studios satirical fantasy comedy Meet Mr Lucifer stars Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling and Barbara […]

May, 16

Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] ** (1962, Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara) – Classic Movie Review 11,179

Director Ishirō Honda’s quaint and hysterical but fondly remembered 1962 Japanese kaiju monster movie King Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] is the third film in the Godzilla franchise, and the first of two […]

May, 07

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Wrong Is Right [The Man with the Deadly Lens] *** (1982, Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Katharine Ross, Robert Conrad, G D Spradlin, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Webber, Hardy Kruger, Dean Stockwell, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 6181

Writer/ co-producer/ director Richard Brooks goes for the idea of Dr Strangelove meets Network in his bold 1982 satirical-minded thriller based on the novel The Better Angels by Charles McCarry. Sean Connery stars as the […]

Nov, 02

Boys on the Side *** (1995, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughy, James Remar, Billy Wirth) – Classic Movie Review 5826

Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore star as three very different women who share a cross-country car trip to escape their lousy lives and rotten menfolk and/or emotional vacuums in a big heartwarming, bitter-sweet […]

Jul, 29

Ginger and Fred [Ginger e Fred] **** (1986, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni) – Classic Movie Review 5477

Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as wrinkly old dancers Amelia and Pippo, popular Ginger and Fred imitators 30 years earlier, who are reunited to make a comeback on a TV variety show, in director […]

May, 20

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