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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ***** (1953, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Norma Varden, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, Elliott Reid) – Classic Movie Review 915

Howard Hawks’s glorious 1953 Technicolor musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is perfectly tailored to the very special talents of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, seen at their enchanting best as singer gold-diggers Dorothy and Lorelei. […]

Mar, 15

The Stag *** (2013, Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Michael Legge) – Movie Review

A bachelor stag party weekend in the great outdoors takes some strange but not entirely unexpected detours. Surprisingly, maybe, co-writer/director John Butler’s film comedy is very likeable and amusing, well acted by a good cast, […]

Mar, 14

The Motorcycle Diaries [Diarios de motocicleta] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro) – Classic Movie Review 852

Director Walter Salles’s 2004 eye-catching and thought-provoking film unites him with Gael García Bernal, who had already played Che Guevara in Fidel, the 2002 TV movie about Castro. As the young Che Guevara, an ideally […]

Mar, 01

Y Tu Mamá También **** (2001, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú) – Classic Movie Review 823

Sex Mex! Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 Mexican coming of age road film Y Tu Mamá También stars Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal and Maribel Verdú. Sex Mex! Two sex and drugs obsessed teenage Mexican boys, Tenoch […]

Feb, 13

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

17 Again ***½ (2009, Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Melora Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 805

Matthew Perry co-stars in the 2009 teen fantasy comedy film 17 Again as the 37-year-old as Mike O’Donnell, who gets a second chance to be 17 again and is reincarnated as main star Zac Efron. […]

Feb, 08

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

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