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Cowboy *** (1958, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York, Richard Jaeckel, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6829
You don’t expect to find Jack Lemmon in a Western, but here he is in the entertaining and imaginative 1958 cowboy tale Cowboy, based on Frank Harris’s apocryphal autobiography My Reminiscences as a Cowboy On […]
The Trespasser *** (1929, Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B Walthall, Wally Albright) – Classic Movie Review 6296
Silent super-star Gloria Swanson earned an Academy Award nomination for her much talked-about 1929 talkie debut, written and directed by Edmund Goulding. It is advertised as ‘Her First ALL TALKING Picture’. It was first filmed as a silent, but […]
The Big Sick **** (2017, Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano) – Movie Review
The Big Sick is very sweet and very funny, and very well sustained for its epic two hours. Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan are good but Holly Hunter is outstanding. Even the hospital stuff is funny, […]
Weird Science *** (1985, Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5072
‘It’s all in the name of science. Weird Science.’ Two (now sadly eclipsed) Eighties Brat Pack actors, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith, are the engaging stars of writer-director John Hughes’s wacky 1985 teen comedy […]
The Joker Is Wild ***½ (1957, Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland, Jackie Coogan, Sophie Tucker, Ted De Corsia, Barry Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 4721
Director Charles Vidor’s hit 1957 musical The Joker Is Wild stars Frank Sinatra as Twenties Chicago night-club/ speakeasy singer Joe E Lewis, who is invited to work for the Mob during the Prohibition era, and […]
Kissing a Fool ** (1998, David Schwimmer, Jason Lee, Mili Avital) – Classic Movie Review 4714
Friends star David Schwimmer goes through his usual Ross Gellar turn in director Doug Ellis’s pleasant, though rather iffily scripted (by James Frey) and predictable 1998 romantic comedy. Schwimmer stars as a young sports broadcaster […]
The Match King *** (1932, Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton, Harold Huber, Claire Dodd, John Wray) – Classic Movie Review 3566
Based on the true tale of the real career of Ivar Kreuger and a novelised version of his life by Einar Thorvaldson, directors Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s little-known, antique 1932 drama is old-style film-making, […]