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Bug ** (1975, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland) – Classic Movie Review 8211

‘They Look Like Rocks…Possess A High Intelligence…Have No Eyes…And Eat Ashes…They Travel In Your Car Exhaust…They Make Fire…They Kill.’ How promising and exciting is that? But maybe try to contain your excitement a little. Director […]

Mar, 07

Where’s That Fire? *** (1939, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 7980

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy Where’s That Fire? Stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, who fire on all cylinders in Hay’s slightly patchy but generally very funny final fling for Gainsborough Pictures […]

Jan, 04

We Faw Down [We Slip Up] ** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers) – Classic Movie Review 7370

‘This story is based on the assumption that, somewhere in the world, there are husbands who do not tell their wives everything.’ Ah, ha! Director Leo McCarey’s 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up] is […]

Jul, 29

It! ** (1967, Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 7292

‘He who in the 20th century shall dare evoke me, beware, for neither by fire, nor water, nor force, nor anything by man created can I be destroyed.’ Producer, screenwriter, director Herbert J Leder’s 1967 […]

Jul, 15

Skyscraper ** (2018, Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Roland Møller, Pablo Schreiber, Chin Han, Noah Taylor) – Movie Review

Here, hang on a minute, Dwayne, the preposterous Skyscraper needs a reality check. It is a bit of a tall story that takes a lot of swallowing. The preposterous Skyscraper needs a reality check. Writer-director […]

Jul, 14

Road to Zanzibar *** (1941, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 6979

‘ IT’S THAT GLEESOME THREESOME AGAIN! Giving you your worth in mirth! Topping all the fun in Road to Singapore!’ Director Victor Schertzinger’s gleesome 1941 comedy is the funny sequel to Road to Singapore (1940), in which […]

Apr, 29

The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15

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