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Lady and the Tramp ***** (1955, voices of Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, George Givot, Stan Freberg) – Classic Movie Review 2221

Directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1955 Disney animated feature is the story of a female American pedigree Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family, and a male stray mutt mongrel named the Tramp. […]

Feb, 28

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03

Raising Arizona **** (1987, Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 1767

Hooray for the Coen Brothers’ second movie, providing a dazzling follow-up to their stunning film noir debut with Blood Simple in 1984. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a petty crook H.I. McDonnough (‘Hi’) […]

Oct, 13

Popeye **** (1980, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 1595

Robin Williams makes his star movie début in director Robert Altman’s ludicrously underrated, under-patronised and undervalued 1980 live-action version of the E C Segar cartoon. Williams and Shelley Duvall are just perfect as the spinach-eating […]

Aug, 26

Nine Months *** (1995, Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1575

Writer-director Chris Columbus’s interesting if uneasy 1995 comedy is based on the 1994 French hit Neuf Mois, written by Patrick Braoudé. Hugh Grant stars as Samuel Faulkner, a commitment-phobic man who fears that his idyllic […]

Aug, 22

Jersey Girl ** (2004, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 1062

Writer-director Kevin Smith’s 2004 comedy stars Ben Affleck, who is warm and appealing as Ollie Trinke, a top New York publicist whose wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) dies in childbirth. He tries to park their baby […]

Apr, 06

The Kid ***** (1921, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1053

Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1921 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. It ominously starts by declaring itself ‘a comedy with a smile – and perhaps a tear’ but that needn’t put us off too […]

Apr, 05

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