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I Wake Up Screaming [Hot Spot] **** (1941, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Elisha Cook Jr, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 6586

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s winning 1941 20th Century Fox movie stars Victor Mature as star promoter Frankie Christopher, who is suspected when his protégée actress client Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) is murdered. Then her sister […]

Jan, 21

Coco **** (2017, voices Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach) – Movie Review

Directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina’s 2017 Pixar movie is a genuine weird one, a total one-off oddity that you are kind of amazed they went ahead and made. A story about a boy who enters the Land of […]

Jan, 20

The Post **** (2017, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Director Steven Spielberg’s conscientious and involving if not quite inspired biographical historical drama tells the dynamite story of The Washington Post newspaper publisher Kay Graham and her gung-ho editor Ben Bradlee, who make the decision to risk […]

Jan, 20

Cannonball Run II * (1984, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Movie Review 6582

There is little action and there are even fewer laughs in director Hal Needham’s 1984 action comedy sequel, and the big-star guest spots hardly help. Admittedly, though, it might just be worth a look for […]

Jan, 19

Another You ** (1991, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl) – Classic Movie Review 4825

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor were one of the best double acts in the movies, so director Maurice Phillips’s 1991 laughter-raiser is valuable for them, for its decent comedy setup and for some funny lines […]

Dec, 30

The In-Laws **** (1979, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 4195

Super-talented players Peter Falk and Alan Arkin put the spark in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s huge fun 1979 offbeat buddy comedy, deliciously written by Andrew Bergman, full of quirky, zany and unexpected humour. Arkin plays dentist […]

Aug, 18

La Grande Bouffe [Blow-Out] ** (1973, Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 4194

Four burnt-out blokes meet up a villa in the countryside to eat themselves to death in the blow-out of the English title. But first they hire four prostitutes and engage in group sex. One of the […]

Aug, 18

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