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Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]
Director Penelope Spheeris’s 1993 television sitcom spinoff of the much-loved nine-season The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971) is amiable and harmless, and it certainly tries hard. But alas it is not much of a success thanks to […]
Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s Stockholm museum satire is provocative, clever and amusing, though it goes on way too long at 142 minutes, and loses its way and its bite in the last 45 minutes. It does […]
Co-writer/ director Charles Frend’s modest but amiable 1949 British comedy stars Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as Welsh coal-mining brothers David ‘Dai Number 9’ Jones and Thomas ‘Twm’ Jones. The duo come to London to support […]
Tony Curtis plays Nick, literally, a ladykiller who weds ’em then kills ’em to his heart’s content to inherit from his rich widows until he meets his match in his latest wife, young Italian widowed […]
Director Clive Donner’s amusing and deliciously cynical 1964 satirical dark comedy runs along the lines of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, though it is based on the short story The Best of […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1946 thriller is a somewhat down-bill, down-at-heel mix of film noir, crime caper, romance and humorous chase drama starring Lucille Ball and Lloyd Nolan as confidence trickster Ricki Woodner and sheriff Bob […]