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Carry On Emmannuelle * (1978, Kenneth Williams, Suzanne Danielle, Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth, Jack Douglas, Beryl Reid) – Classic Movie Review 2379

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1978 silly softcore sequel Carry On Emmannuelle is everyone’s least favourite Carry On film and the one that finally killed off the series. It marks producer Peter Rogers’s failed attempt at a […]

Apr, 12

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

Duck Soup ***** (1933, Marx Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 1405

‘I could dance with you ‘til the cows come home. On second thought, I’d rather dance with the cows ‘til you came home.’ Director Leo McCarey’s glorious vintage 1933 comedy delivers firecracker lunacy from the […]

Jul, 08

Omen III: The Final Conflict *** (1981, Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Mason Adams, Robert Arden) – Classic Movie Review 558

In his first feature film, Graham Baker directs the final part of The Omen trilogy in 1981, with the evil Damien Thorn now aged 33 and all set to ensure Christ’s Second Coming won’t happen by […]

Dec, 21

The Omen **** (2006, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) – Classic Film Review 248

The slick and exciting 2006 horror thriller remake film The Omen is unexpectedly good, a whole load better than could possibly have been imagined. Liev Schreiber is first rate in Gregory Peck’s old role as […]

Sep, 18

The Omen ***** (1976, Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 247

All of the brilliantly staged shocks in the thrilling and clever 1976 classic horror thriller The Omen are still eye-catching and chilling. It is very smartly written by David Seltzer and slickly directed by Richard […]

Sep, 18

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

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