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First a Girl **** (1935, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 6532

Jessie Matthews lights up director Victor Saville’s delightful 1935 musical comedy, the first remake of Reinhold Schünzel’s 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, which was eventually to wind up as Julie Andrews’s property as Victor […]

Jan, 07

Casting *** (2017, Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Tim Kalkhof) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Nicolas Wackerbarth’s German film has wicked fun at the expense of actors and creatives in this witty, funny and clever comedy drama about the casting sessions for a remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Seventies […]

Oct, 04

Bellissima **** (1951, Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli) – Classic Movie Review 5715

Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Maddalena Cecconi, who fights other mothers to get her pretty child Maria (Tina Apicella) into a new movie being made at Cinecittà, in co-writer/ director Luchino Visconti’s 1951 Italian neo-realist […]

Jul, 05

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1989, Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 5103

This 1989 big-screen remake of the famous Gaston Leroux novel had a convoluted production history. It was to be directed by John Hough and released by Cannon Films but Menahem Golan’s new 21st Century Film Corporation picked it up, […]

Mar, 05

The Commitments *** (1991, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5047

Director Alan Parker assembles a likeable cast of youngish people searching after that elusive fame in his hit 1991 musical drama about the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band called The Commitments. It […]

Feb, 22

Step Up 2: The Streets ** (2008, Adam G Sevani, Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco, Will Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 4639

Director Jon M Chu’s 2010 largely unrelated Step Up dance movie sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the surprise 2006 dance film hit, is bright and sexy enough, reasonably entertaining and overall just about OK. It stars Adam G Sevani […]

Nov, 12

The Thing Called Love *** (1993, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 4558

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]

Oct, 29

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