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The Delicate Delinquent *** (1957, Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Richard Bakalyan, Mary Webster) – Classic Movie Review 11,589

Writer-director Don McGuire’s 1956 black-and-white and VistaVision comedy The Delicate Delinquent stars Jerry Lewis, who goes it alone for the first time after breaking from screen partner Dean Martin, playing janitor Sidney L Pythias, a petty […]

Sep, 20

Shivers [They Came from Within] *** (1975, Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 9515

The infamous 1975 David Cronenberg Canadian science fiction body horror film shocker Shivers [They Came from Within] is his breakthrough third movie, following Stereo and Crimes of the Future and preceding Rabid (1977). It stars […]

Mar, 16

Coming to America ** (1988, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, John Amos) – Classic Movie Review 8806

Director John Landis’s 1988 romantic comedy Coming to America represents a mild return to form for Eddie Murphy, engagingly playing Akeem Joffer, the powerful crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes […]

Aug, 08

Birds Do It * (1966, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8337

Director Andrew Marton’s 1966 film Birds Do It is a silly, mostly mirthless comedy with Soupy Sales starring as Melvin Byrd, a nuclear plant’s caretaker ionised in error so he can fly across Florida and […]

Apr, 06

Eyewitness [The Janitor] **** (1981, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 6500

Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]

Dec, 31

Joe Dirt * (2001, David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jamie Pressly) – Classic Movie Review 6171

Written by David Spade and Fred Wolf, and directed by Dennie Gordon in 2001, this is a dire, desperate, and laugh-free slapstick comedy from Happy Madison and Columbia. It is a chilly, fun-free zone. A […]

Nov, 01

Connecting Rooms * (1970, Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner, Kay Walsh, Gabrielle Drake, Leo Genn) – Classic Movie Review 6015

Writer/ producer/ director Franklin Gollings’s sluggish and disappointing 1969 drama stars a miscast Bette Davis as a rather sad street-musician cellist called Wanda Fleming and a better cast Michael Redgrave as a dismissed gay ex-schoolteacher […]

Sep, 12

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