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It’s a Wonderful World **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 7916

‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]

Dec, 17

The Guilty [Den skyldige] **** (2018, Jakob Cedergren, voice of Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi) – Movie Review 

Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy Danish noir thriller, set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre. Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The […]

Oct, 03

East Side of Heaven *** (1939, Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7391

Director David Butler’s nice but only middling 1939 Universal Pictures black and white musical comedy with songs East Side of Heaven stars Bing Crosby as a crooning cabbie called Denny Martin, who is surrogate dad to […]

Aug, 03

The Deadly Trap [La maison sous les arbres] ** (1971, Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins) – Classic Movie Review 7014

Director René Clément’s 1971 thriller stars Faye Dunaway as Jill, an American in Paris, and Frank Langella as Philippe, her computer wiz boyfriend, who suddenly decides to quit his job. Jill is upset but then she […]

May, 07

Back Street **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 7,000

The 1941 romantic drama film Back Street is arguably the best and most romantic of the three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman’s love for a married man. A guaranteed […]

May, 04

Game Night *** (2018, Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen) – Movie Review

Atoning for their horrible 2105 effort Vacation, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are joint directors of the surprisingly fun and funny crime black comedy Game Night, in which a group of friends who meet for game nights […]

Mar, 06

All the Money in the World *** (2017, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer) – Movie Review

John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) has All the Money in the World but won’t cough up the $17 million ransom his daughter-in-law Gail (Michelle Williams) needs for the ransom to spring his 16-year-old grandson Jean Paul Getty III […]

Jan, 05

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