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Hold-Up *** (1985, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 10,786

Director Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 film Hold-Up stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose sprightly playing holds up, but not his success at the box-office, for this entertaining French-Canadian heist thriller, based on Jay Cronley’s novel, in which he […]

Jan, 13

Quick Change *** (1990, Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 10,782

Quick Change (1990) is a clever and amusing crime caper comedy, in which Grimm (Bill Murray) makes himself up as a circus clown for a bank heist but then gets stuck in New York with […]

Jan, 12

Clownhouse ** (1989, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6954

Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]

Apr, 22

Delicatessen **** (1991, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac) – Classic Movie Review 6656

French writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s brilliant 1991 Gothic nightmare Delicatessen stars Dominique Pinon as a Louison, circus clown who takes work with a butcher called Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who is chopping people up. Soon the […]

Feb, 07

It [Stephen King’s It] *** (1990, Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O’Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Olivia Hussey, Richard Masur, Tim Reid) – Classic Movie Review 5228

Director Tommy Lee Wallace’s eerie and effective 1990 two-part TV mini-series fantasy horror thriller stars Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas and Annette O’Toole, who give excellent performances in this adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling […]

Apr, 01

Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker **** (2000, voices of Will Friedle, Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy) – Classic Movie Review 5111

Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) faces a final challenge when the maniacal super-villain The Joker seemingly returns from the dead to wreak a new wave of havoc on Gotham City. Director Curt Geda’s imaginative and first-rate […]

Mar, 06

Sawdust and Tinsel [Gycklarnas Afton] **** (1953, Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek, Annika Tretow) – Classic Movie Review 4017

Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 early Swedish masterwork stars Åke Grönberg as Albert Johansson, the ring-master of a travelling circus, attempting to make peace with his estranged wife Agda, played by Annika Tretow. But Grönberg is […]

Jul, 14

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