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The Perfect Specimen **½ (1937, Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton, May Robson) – Classic Movie Review 11,905

The Perfect Specimen (1937) is Errol Flynn’s first comedy. Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 comedy The Perfect Specimen is vintage-era screwball fun with Errol Flynn unexpectedly cast outside his comfort zone as Gerald Wicks, a wealthy […]

Feb, 04

My Forbidden Past *** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 11,256

The 1951 black and white romantic crime drama My Forbidden Past stars Ava Gardner as lady with a secret Barbara Beaurevelle, who plots heartless revenge on Dr Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum). Director Robert Stevenson’s 1951 […]

May, 31

Jump, Darling **** (2020, Thomas Duplessie, Cloris Leachman, Linda Kash) – Movie Review

Writer-director Phil Connell’s appealing, amusing and moving 2020 Canadian drama Jump, Darling stars Thomas Duplessie as Russell, aka rookie drag queen Fishy Falters, who escapes from a break-up with his boyfriend to his grandmother (Cloris […]

Mar, 19

Family Viewing *** (1987, David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose, Arsinée Khanjian) – Classic Movie Review 10,661

Van: ‘I’ve been feeling kinda weird lately.’ Writer-director Atom Egoyan shows his unusual talent and cleverness in the 1987 Canadian drama Family Viewing, a surreal study of a disunited, TV obsessed family, in which a […]

Dec, 13

The Farewell *** (2019, Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, Diana Lin, X Mayo) – Movie Review

When a Chinese family discovers their beloved grandmother Nai Nai (Shuzhen Zhao) has only a short while to live, they decide not to tell her, and they stage an impromptu wedding as a cover for […]

Sep, 20

I Live My Life ** (1935, Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 6769

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1935 screwball comedy romantic drama stars Joan Crawford, who is from the right side of the tracks this time as pampered, bored New York society girl, Kay Bentley. But she […]

Mar, 06

A Monster Calls **** (2016, Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell) – Movie Review

Lewis MacDougall stars as 12-year-old Conor O’Malley, who is greatly troubled by the heavy weight of his burden of impossible problems. He’s being bullied at school, his grandma (Sigourney Weaver) is chilly and controlly, his dad […]

Oct, 06

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