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Chance of a Lifetime **** (1950, Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Julien Mitchell, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Josephine Wilson, Patrick Troughton, Hattie Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 8635

Strikers take over the running of their small factory making tractors and ploughs from their pompous big boss Dickinson (Basil Radford), in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bernard Miles’s entertaining and thoughtful 1950-style anti-authority comedy drama Chance […]

Jun, 24

A Kid for Two Farthings **** (1955, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 5748

‘CAROL REED, the master of The Unexpected, brings you a motion picture of mood and emotion that surpasses all your expectations!’ Director Carol Reed’s sweet, ingratiating 1955 film A Kid for Two Farthings, about a […]

Jul, 12

Finian’s Rainbow **** (1968, Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 4728

Fred Astaire is still nimble and sprightly at the age of 69 as Finian McLonergan, and Petula Clark is pleasing as his daughter Sharon, in director Francis Ford Coppola’s highly appealing 1968 movie version of […]

Dec, 01

13 Going on 30 ** (2004, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Kathy Baker) – Classic Movie Review 2616

Director Gary Winick’s 2004 movie stars the appealing young Jennifer Garner, who is tough and feisty in her TV show Alias, but here she hasn’t really got the right stuff for girly romcom. In Josh […]

Jun, 19

Liar, Liar *** (1997, Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2312

Director Tom Shadyac’s 1997 comedy provides a vehicle for one of the biggest hits of Jim Carrey, who enjoys himself in an ideal, tailor-made role as Fletcher Reede, a sycophantic, smooth-talking divorce attorney whose talent […]

Mar, 25

Big ***** (1989, Tom Hanks, John Heard, Jared Rushton, Robert Loggia, David Moscow, Mercedes Ruehl, Jon Lovitz, Josh Clark, Kimberlee M Davis, Elizabeth Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 287

Director Penny Marshall’s 1988 comedy with heart finally turned Tom Hanks overnight into a superstar aged 32. He gives a master class in what he used to do best – acting delightfully childish and being […]

Oct, 13

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