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An Alligator Named Daisy **½ (1955, Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Holloway, Stephen Boyd, Roland Culver, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 4311

Director J Lee Thompson’s utterly daft, not very witty 1955 British Technicolor comedy An Alligator Named Daisy boasts a pleasant atmosphere and some moderate, simple guffaws, not least through the charming cast’s astonishing ability to […]

Sep, 06

Morgan ** (2016, Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Kate Mara stars as corporate risk-management consultant Lee Weathers, who arrives at some dark old house in the country where Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), an artificially created humanoid being has just stabbed a doctor (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in […]

Sep, 02

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates ** (2016, Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy, Alice Wetterlund, Sugar Lyn Beard, Sam Richardson) – Movie Review

Partying twenty-something airhead brothers Mike and Dave Stangle (Adam Devine, Zac Efron) are ordered by their exasperated parents (Stephen Root, Stephanie Faracy) to find nice girl dates to attend their sister Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard)’s wedding. […]

Aug, 11

Jason Bourne **** (2016, Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review

Great to have Matt Damon back for the fourth time as Bourne. Great to have Paul Greengrass back in the director’s chair! Great action! It’s a huge pleasure as well as relief that Jason Bourne (2016) is […]

Jul, 26

The Legend of Tarzan ** (2016, Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, Simon Russell Beale, Jim Broadbent, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens) – Movie Review

If you’re going to remake Tarzan you’d better have a good reason, a good story, a good production and a good film. By and largely the disappointing The Legend of Tarzan fails on all four counts. Harry […]

Jul, 07

The Real Howard Spitz ** (1998, Kelsey Grammer, Amanda Donohoe, Genevieve Tessier, Joseph Rutten) – Classic Movie Review 3793

Kelsey Grammer is the real Howard Spitz and Patrick McKenna is the fake one in director Vadim Jean’s relatively enjoyable, hardly seen 1998 family comedy film. Spitz is a grumpy, failed detective novelist until he meets […]

May, 30

Ratchet and Clank ** (2016, voices of James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Ready to kick some asteroid? Directors Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland’s animated sci-fi video game adaptation is packed full of fast paced action and sarcastic one-liners. But, though it has plenty of energy and is likeable enough, it […]

Apr, 29

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