We Are Your Friends *** (2015, Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski) – Movie Review

Zac Efron, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Shaffer and a brutalist shaven-headed Jonny Weston star as a quartet of 23-year-old drifters in a poor area of Hollywood (there’s a poor area of Hollywood?) who are still trying to […]

The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Fedora **** (1978, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegarde Knef, José Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2661

Director Billy Wilder’s horribly undervalued final film from 1978 is fittingly a report on the movie business’s excesses and an attack on Hollywood’s youth-oriented culture, told in flashback. Marthe Keller stars as a dotty, reclusive old […]

The Bad and the Beautiful ***** (1952, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 2363

The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2122

Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? **** (1969, Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 2052

Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]

Calendar Girl **½ (1993, Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 1960

Director John Whitesell’s Fifties-set 1993 youth-oriented coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds and Jerry O’Connell as late teens who go to Hollywood to fulfil the dream of meeting Marilyn Monroe. One summer holiday, cocky Roy Darpinian […]