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Alice in Wonderland **** (1951, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1413

Supervised by directors Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney’s attractively designed Americanised 1951 animated feature film of Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass is charming […]

Jul, 11

Mulholland Drive **** (2001, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 1113

This crazy story of Tinsel Town’s flotsam and jetsam is an intriguing, gorgeous looking but utterly unfathomable 2001 surreal noir movie from the master of the macabre, writer-director David Lynch. He landed a Best Director […]

Apr, 18

Sabrina ** (1995, Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 933

Director Sydney Pollack’s 1995 romance is a totally turgid remake of Billy Wilder’s none-too-sparkling original based on a creaky old play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor. In this uneasy romantic comedy, Long Island playboy David […]

Mar, 18

Veronica Mars ** (2014, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Jamie Lee Curtis, Percy Daggs III, Gaby Hoffmann, Ryan Hansen, Jerry O’Connell, James Franco) – Movie Review

Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]

Mar, 14

Murder Ahoy *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Stringer Davis, Nicholas Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 864

Margaret Rutherford’s fourth and final outing as Agatha Christie’s spinster detective Miss Jane Marple, the 1964 comedy thriller Murder Ahoy, has a breezy nautical flavour, as she investigates the murder of one of her fellow […]

Mar, 04

Isn’t She Great **** (2000, Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 764

An ideally cast Bette Midler has a field day as real-life failed actress Jacqueline Susann, who turns herself into the queen of the trashy bestsellers after becoming the world-famous writer of The Valley of the […]

Jan, 28

Frozen **** (2013, voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad) – Movie Review

Another year, another Walt Disney animation. After Wreck-It Ralph, they go back to basics with an old-fashioned fairy tale, a princess, a wicked queen, happy comedy relief, a quest, a threat, some danger, a warm-hearted message, […]

Dec, 06

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