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Step Brothers **** (2008, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4186

Will Ferrell and John C Reilly’s second movie together, 2008’s riotous Step Brothers, follows 2006’s uneven Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In the admirably silly story by Ferrell, Reilly and director Adam McKay, the duo play middle-aged slacker […]

Aug, 17

Florence Foster Jenkins **** (2016, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson) – Movie Review

Stephen Frears’s delectable and enchanting biopic tells the story of middle-aged New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who would never let a little thing like having a terrible singing voice get in the way of her […]

May, 05

Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] ***** (1962, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov) – Classic Movie Review 3567

Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s scintillating and stunning 1962 first feature Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] is about the feisty and vengeful 12-year-old Russian boy Ivan Bondarev, played by Kolya Burlyayev [Nikolai Burlyayev], who works as a spy […]

Apr, 14

Bedazzled *** (1967, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Barry Humphries, Michael Bates) – Classic Movie Review 3321

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1967 British comedy is a slick and amusing vehicle for the beloved comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who also provide the original story, with the screenplay credited to Cook. And Moore also […]

Feb, 04

Nightmare **** (1964, David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden) – Classic Movie Review 3306

Director Freddie Francis’s excellent 1964 psychological suspense thriller Nightmare stars the 25-year-old Jennie Linden as troubled young heiress Janet, a student at a private school. She is being brought up in the absence of her parents […]

Jan, 31

Coraline **** (2009, Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Keith David, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French) – Classic Movie Review 2929

Dakota Fanning provides the voice of Coraline Jones, a girl who finds a parallel world with folk who have buttons instead of eyes, caring parents and all her dreams coming true, in Henry Selick’s lovely, haunting […]

Sep, 27

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie] ***** (1972, Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 2632

Co-writer/director Luis Buñuel’s wonderful surrealist comedy of manners and satire on social mores and class hypocrisy won the 1973 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (for France). It is an unmissable Buñuel classic. Behind all the […]

Jun, 23

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