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Straight Talk ** (1992, Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 6380

Director Barnet Kellman’s 1992 film is a good-natured comedy with a typically spunky performance by Dolly Parton as Shirlee, a small town spouter of home truths, who gets a job as a hit Chicago radio talk […]

Dec, 09

The Dinner **** (2017, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny) – Movie Review

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall are. And it all because their teenage sons, Charlie Plummer, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick and Miles J Harvey, have got into quite a spot of bother. Coogan […]

Dec, 08

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Ieri oggi domani] *** (1963, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè) – Classic Movie Review 6151

Director Vittorio De Sica’s easy-going 1963 Italian portmanteau comedy of three tales now appears rather uneven and a shade clumsy at times, though it was highly popular and much praised on release, and went on to […]

Oct, 29

Breathe ** (2017, Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers, Diana Rigg) – Movie Review

Actor Andy Serkis’s directorial debut is a surprisingly traditional and conventional biopic film. It is also straightforward, plain and sentimental, just when something rigorous and offbeat, even experimental, is required. It is very honorable, very English […]

Oct, 04

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ***½ (1939, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6017

The last of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s great series of musicals at RKO Radio Pictures (with a single reunion to come, The Barkleys of Broadway, at MGM a decade later) is a nostalgic biopic of […]

Sep, 14

Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation *** (1962, James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Fabian Forte, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner, John McGiver, Lauri Peters) – Classic Movie Review 5961

Director Henry Koster’s 1962 comedy stars James Stewart as the harassed St Louis-based banker Mr Roger Hobbs the head of a nice all-American family, who takes off with his wife Peggy (Maureen O’Hara), kids and […]

Aug, 23

Jet Pilot ** (1957, John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 5931

John Wayne stars as hunky US Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon who loops-the-loop for sexy defecting Soviet flier Lieutenant Anna Marladovna (Janet Leigh). He falls in love with Anna on an assignment to escort her, in plane-mad […]

Aug, 17

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