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Valmont ***** (1989, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Sian Phillips, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 3522
Director Milos Forman’s seductive 1989 romantic drama film Valmont stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly and Fairuza Balk, along with Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, Ian MacNeice and Isla Blair. It […]
Life Stinks *** (1991, Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin) – Classic Movie Review 3028
Mel Brooks plays a billionaire who takes a bet with a rival property developer that he can’t live as a penniless tramp on the streets of LA for a month. It turns out to be […]
Around the World in 80 Days *** (2004, Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cécile De France, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 2453
Director Frank Coraci’s 2004 remake of producer Mike Todd’s 1956 five-Oscar-winning original stars a reasonably well-cast Steve Coogan. He makes a fair stab at his big star role as Jules Verne’s 1899-set Victorian inventor and […]
Around the World in 80 Days **** (1956, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 2452
Director Michael Anderson’s 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film triumphed on Academy Award night, winning five rather undeserved Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. Producer-showman Michael Todd, a […]
Rat Race ** (2002, John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr, Seth Green) – Classic Movie Review 1339
A scheming Las Vegas casino magnate, hotel-casino owner John Cleese, starts a fun race to New Mexico to collect $2million, prompting a bumbling group of no-hopers to set off a cross-continent dash to reach the dosh. […]
Tomcats *** (2001, Jerry O’Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey) – Classic Movie Review 1019
Game for anything that will raise a laugh, Jerry O’Connell is very amusing in writer-director Gregory Poirier’s wild and wacky 2001 comedy. While artificial and not specially out of the ordinary, it nevertheless remains generally […]
Guys and Dolls **** (1955, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 925
The four-Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz films one of Broadway’s finest, all-time-great shows, based on the famous short stories by Damon Runyon. He turns it into a genially pleasing, attractively easy-going, if none too cinematic […]