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Paris When It Sizzles * (1964, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 11,128

Director Richard Quine’s 1964 film Paris When It Sizzles is a star-studded comedy lacking both style and panache. It wastes the many talents of its stars on a torpor-inducing script, based on a French original […]

Apr, 23

A Fine Madness *** (1966, Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 8370

Director Irvin Kershner’s funny, appealingly whimsical 1966 screwball comedy A Fine Madness stars Sean Connery as a crazy New York City-based radical poet called Samson Shillitoe, and Joanne Woodward co-stars as his brash waitress wife […]

Apr, 16

Maybe Baby ** (2000, Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Joanna Lumley, Matthew Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 4877

Writer-director Ben Elton’s strained 2000 BBC Films comedy is based on his own novel Inconceivable and marks the funny stand-up comedian’s directorial debut. It stars Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson as Sam and Lucy Bell, […]

Jan, 11

Deconstructing Harry ** (1997, Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 1801

Writer-director Woody Allen’s misfiring 1997 comedy explores the trouble with Harry Block, a nerdy, neurotic New York writer, with more than his fair share of troubles in his creative and erotic life. He has three ex-wives […]

Nov, 03

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

Barton Fink **** (John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shalhoub) – Classic Movie Review 476

‘There’s only one thing stranger than what’s going on inside his head. What’s going on outside.’ John Turturro stars as the eponymous Barton Fink in the Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan’s clever, witty 1991 Hollywood […]

Dec, 06

Wonder Boys ****½ (2000, Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr, Richard Thomas, Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, George Grizzard) – Classic Movie Review 199

Director Curtis Hanson’s rich and strange 2000 gem Wonder Boys is a brilliant, witty, splendidly jaundiced college black comedy, with a crackling, ultra-busy script by Steven Kloves based on the offbeat novel by Michael Chabon. […]

Aug, 28

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