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Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058
Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]
One Night at McCool’s **** (2001, Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3008
Director Harald Zwart’s smart and clever 2001 comedy stars Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser and John Goodman as a trio of hapless men who all fall for a beautiful temptress called Jewel (Liv Tyler at her […]
Bad Timing ** (1980, Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel ) – Classic Movie Review 2993
Bad Timing is an upsetting and depressing experience, though it is ambitious and intelligent, and has its notable good points. Director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 British sex mystery thriller stars Theresa Russell as a neurotic young […]
Loot ***½ (1970, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Lee Remick, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery, Joe Lynch, John Cater, Aubrey Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2971
Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]
The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2935
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1975 mystery thriller The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, who reprises his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper (Archer in the novels) in an acceptable sequel to his far […]
Father Brown [The Detective] **** (1954, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Sidney James, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 2,825
Alec Guinness is on delightful form as G K Chesterton’s priest and amateur detective, who is in Rome on the trail of master crook Flambeau (Peter Finch), in the 1954 British comedy mystery thriller film […]
Hot Pursuit * (2015, Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara, Matthew Del Negro) – Movie Review
Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara are certainly game for a laugh but have nothing fresh or funny to add to 2013’s very similar The Heat with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. This time it’s Witherspoon who […]