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Sin Takes a Holiday *** (1930, Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 11,271

Director Paul L Stein’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy Sin Takes a Holiday stars Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna and Basil Rathbone in brightly played performances. The fairly witty screenplay by Horace Jackson is based on […]

Jun, 04

House of Sand and Fog **** (2003, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Kim Dickens, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 5646

Two people try to follow their own idea of the American dream – with disastrous results. Co-writer/ producer/ director Vadim Perelman’s superlative, provocative 2003 movie version of a hit novel by André Dubus III is […]

Jun, 21

The Cocoanuts **** (1929, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Kay Francis) – Classic Movie Review 3062

The Marx Brothers’ first sound film was made when they were four Marxes, with Groucho, Chico and Harpo joined along with Zeppo. An all-talking, all-singing musical comedy hit, it is filmed at the dawn of […]

Nov, 14

MouseHunt **** (1997, Lee Evans, Nathan Lane, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1649

  Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 farcical comedy is a total hoot, with a highly amusing and inventive screenplay by Alan Rifkin. Lee Evans and Nathan Lane are well cast as daft brothers […]

Sep, 07

The Red Violin [Le Violon Rouge] ***** (1998, Samuel L Jackson, Don McKellar, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Colm Feore, Sandra Oh, Carlo Cecchi) – Classic Movie Review 263

The haunting and ravishing treat of a film called The Red Violin (1998). Director François Girard tells the ambitious, utterly beguiling and beautiful epic history of a mythical violin from its creation by maker Nicolo […]

Oct, 01

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