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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby *** (2006, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan, Pat Hingle, Leslie Bibb, Jane Lynch, Amy Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4185

By 2016, Will Ferrell and John C Reilly have only made two movies together: 2006’s uneven Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and 2008’s riotous Step Brothers. Director Adam McKay’s freewheeling satirical sports comedy Talladega Nights is written […]

Aug, 17

Hearts Divided *** (1936, Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Arthur Treacher, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 3448

Dick Powell plays Napoleon’s younger brother Captain Jerome Bonaparte. But it is Marion Davies as Betsy Patterson, a Baltimore woman he loves and marries, who stars in the well-made 1936 film Hearts Divided Dick Powell […]

Mar, 04

The Black Book [Reign of Terror] *** (1949, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Beulah Bondi, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd, Charles McGraw) – Classic Movie Review 3324

Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot adventure drama The Black Book has a complex plot and a well-researched French Revolution background.  Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot black and white adventure drama The Black Book [Reign […]

Feb, 05

The Pride and the Passion *** (1957, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3075

Producer-director Stanley Kramer assembles a big important cast for his costly, professional, but lumbering and misbegotten 1957 film of C S Forester’s novel The Gun about the capture of a huge cannon by a British […]

Nov, 21

Taking Lives ** (2004, Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Dano, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 3026

Director D J Caruso’s teasing 2004 thriller starts by setting you up for a gripping thriller only to disappoint. In tiny roles, Kiefer Sutherland and Paul Dano do well as the centre part of the […]

Nov, 02

Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2,821

Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]

Aug, 16

Juarez **** (1939, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Gale Sondergaard, Brian Aherne, John Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2704

Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]

Jul, 26

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