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Taking Off **** (1971, Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel) – Classic Movie Review 6935

Czech director Milos Forman’s highly promising 1971 American film debut is a fresh and funny, deftly handled and amusingly scripted generation-gap satire about a middle-aged couple Lynn and Larry Tyne (Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry) who […]

Apr, 17

The Jerk *** (1979, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie Mason) – Classic Movie Review 6894

‘He was a poor black sharecropper’s son who never dreamed he was adopted. A rags to riches to rags story.’ Director Carl Reiner’s 1979 comedy The Jerk stars Steve Martin in his broad, uneasy first […]

Apr, 07

Confessions from a Holiday Camp ** (1977, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Sheila White, Doris Hare, Liz Fraser, Linda Hayden, John Junkin, Lance Percival, David Auker) – Classic Movie Review 6,876

The gang is back for the 1977 sex comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp, the fourth and final saucy outing, revealing what Timmy Lea (Robin Askwith) and Sid Noggett (Anthony Booth) get up to […]

Apr, 02

Confessions of a Pop Performer ** (1975, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Sheila White, Doris Hare, Bob Todd, Jill Gascoine) – Classic Movie Review 6874

Robin Askwith cheerfully returns to give another cheeky performance as the randy young Timothy Lea in the 1975 comedy sequel Confessions of a Pop Performer. ‘What a Performer!’ In the follow-up to the 1974 hit […]

Apr, 02

White Line Fever *** (1975, Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L Q Jones, Don Porter, R G Armstrong, Dick Miller) – Classic Movie Review 6737

Co-writer/ director Jonathan Kaplan’s intense and credible 1975 crime action drama movie about American truck drivers stars Jan-Michael Vincent as Carrol Jo Hummer, who initially rides with his Tucson, Arizona, father Sam (Frank Kennedy) as partners: Sam Hummer and Son. But […]

Feb, 26

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

Meatballs *** (1979, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Cindy Girling, Todd Hoffman, Keith Knight, Chris Makepeace) – Classic Movie Review 6519

Director Ivan Reitman hits it big in 1979 with his first mainstream movie, an amiable if fairly crass teen comedy about a load of nincompoops enjoying summer on a holiday camp – a well tried and […]

Jan, 04

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