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The April Fools *** (1969, Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Myrna Loy, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 10,133

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1969 romantic comedy drama The April Fools stars the always essential Jack Lemmon, who saves a faded, unsparkling late-Sixties neo screwball concoction, in which he plays a sad husband, newly-promoted New York […]

Aug, 05

Can’t Stop the Music ** (1980, Valerie Perrine, Steve Guttenberg, The Village People) – Classic Movie Review 8957

Can’t Stop the Music prompted John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards in 1980. It took the first Razzie award for Worst Picture, and also took Worst Screenplay. The late Seventies gay stereotypes […]

Oct, 01

Studio 54 **** (2018, Steve Rubell, Ian Schrager) – Movie Review

Director Matt Tyrnauer’s tremendous, exhaustive, exhilarating feature documentary says what must be the last word on iconic Seventies New York City celebrity disco Studio 54. It is absolutely fabulous! It tells the story of what […]

Jun, 18

A Night at the Roxbury * (1998, Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Raquel Gardner, Molly Shannon, Dan Hedaya, Gigi Rice, Elisa Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6619

The likeable Saturday Night Live comics Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell do their best to raise laughs as Doug and Steve Butabi, the sad, pathetic, dim-wit brothers whose bid to get into the town’s hippest disco […]

Jan, 29

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? *** (1999, Tom Courtenay, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Stephen Fry, Lulu, David Thewlis, Mark Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5468

A lowly solicitor’s clerk called Vince Smith (Michael Legge), a disco devotee who is mad about John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977), finds his quirky family comes between him and his true love as he […]

May, 17

54 *** (1998, Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers, Breckin Meyer, Sela Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5310

Twenty years earlier before this movie, New York’s beautiful people were boogeying on down to the disco beat at the dance club to end all nightclubs – Studio 54, the world-famous New York City discotheque. In […]

Apr, 17

The Greasy Strangler ** (2016, Michael St Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo) – Movie Review

Michael St Michaels stars as Big Ronnie, a total old slob who lives with his equally dysfunctional middle-aged son, Big Brayden (Sky Elobar). Their sad and pathetic existence is punctuated with Brayden cooking ever more greasy food […]

Jun, 03

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