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The Secret Lives of Dentists **½ (2002, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney) – Classic Movie Review 13,311

Alan Rudolph’s toothsome 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists is based on the novel The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley, and stars Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, and Robin Tunney. Alan Rudolph’s […]

Dec, 16

Blockers ** (2018, John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton ) – Movie Review

Three idiot parents try to stop their daughters from fulfilling their pact to have sex on prom night. So what else is new? Blockers is rude and raunchy, with some hilarious one liners and some […]

Mar, 31

Young at Heart **** (1954, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Barrymore, Gig Young, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Elizabeth Fraser, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6083

‘Fairy tales can come true, it could happen to you…’ Sinatra stars as songwriter Barney Sloan, who romances New England maiden Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day), in director Gordon Douglas’s highly appealing, attractive 1954 musical remake […]

Oct, 11

Blame It on Rio *** (1984, Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore) – Classic Movie Review 5909

Michael Caine is on commanding form as Matthew Hollis, a mixed-up middle-aged married man who starts a holiday romance in Rio with Jennifer (Michelle Johnson), the seductive teenage daughter of his libidinous best buddy Victor […]

Aug, 14

Tightrope **** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 3815

Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]

Jun, 06

Hobson’s Choice ***** (1954, Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Prunella Scales) – Classic Film Review 342

The charismatic Charles Laughton’s expertly judged, delightfully quirky and magnetically larger-than-life performance as 19th-century shop owner Henry Hobson is a greatly loved, career-peak for this admired actor. It is the heart and soul and central […]

Oct, 30

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