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Irma Vep **** (1996, Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard) – Classic Movie Review 2476

Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as a French film director who takes Hong Kong action star Maggie Cheung (playing herself) to be his sexy, rubber-suited super-villainess Irma Vep (an anagram of vampire) in his remake of Louis […]

May, 12

The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] ***** (1924, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller) – Classic Movie Review 2474

Director F W Murnau’s tear-jerking 1924 tragic drama The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] provides a marvellous showcase for the great silent movie actor Emil Jannings. He gives a superb display of silent film acting […]

May, 11

Journey into Fear **** (1942, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2412

Norman Foster’s nailbiting 1942 film noir adventure thriller Journey into Fear bears more than a hint of the stamp of Orson Welles, who started the production, directed his own scenes, assembled a lot of his […]

Apr, 20

Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances de M Hulot] ***** (1953, Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Louis Pérault) – Classic Movie Review 2408

French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance. Joining the post-war holiday-making classes, Monsieur Hulot goes for an August […]

Apr, 19

L’Enfer [Hell] **** (1994, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 2360

Director Claude Chabrol tries to make belated amends for the way the French New Wave he was part of attacked the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, by […]

Apr, 05

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel *** (2015, Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench) – Movie Review

In an entertaining odd-couple double act, Dev Patel and Maggie Smith have the best of what’s going in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as their characters Sonny Kapoor and Muriel Donnelly pursue their expansionist dreams […]

Feb, 25

King of the Hill **** (1993, Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn) – Classic Movie Review 2136

Writer-director Steven Soderbergh’s moving, witty and highly engaging 1993 coming-of-age drama stars Jesse Bradford as a resourceful 12-year-old boy called Aaron who struggles to survive growing up in Depression-era St Louis. The boy plots and schemes […]

Jan, 31

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