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My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263

MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]

Jun, 02

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox *** (1976, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Conrad Janis) – Classic Movie Review 10,515

Director Melvin Frank’s amusing 1976 Western slapstick comedy The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox stars George Segal and Goldie Hawn as gambler Charlie Malloy and saloon hostess Amanda Quaid who get mixed up with trekking […]

Nov, 08

Cats ** (2019, Francesca Hayward, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson) – Movie Review

Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]

Dec, 23

The Mustang *** (2019, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon, Connie Britton) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s appealing and moving 2019 drama The Mustang stars Matthias Schoenaerts as jailed violent convict Roman Coleman, given the chance in prison to participate in Bruce Dern’s rehabilitation therapy programme training […]

Sep, 11

The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review

Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]

Apr, 02

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World *** (2019, Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F Murray Abraham) – Movie Review

The third How to Train Your Dragon animation feature movie is still classy and entertaining, mixing laughs with high adventure. Those dragons are fascinating! It is the third and final film in the DreamWorks Animation trilogy […]

Feb, 26

Python * (2000, Casper Van Dien, Robert Englund, Wil Wheaton, Jenny McCarthy, Frayne Rosanoff) – Classic Movie Review 8098

Director Richard Clabaugh’s 2000 film Python is a really atrocious horror movie, wasting Casper Van Dien (as Bart Parker), Robert Englund (as Dr Anton Rudolph) and Wil Wheaton (as Tommy), with a laughable script by […]

Feb, 05

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