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You’re a Big Boy Now **** (1967, Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Karen Black, Julie Harris, Tony Bill) – Classic Movie Review 4706

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s welcome 1967 New York comedy You’re a Big Boy Now is delightfully quirky and amusing. Peter Kastner stars as innocent, over-cossetted 19-year-old virgin Bernard Chanticleer (Kastner), called Big Boy by his parents, […]

Nov, 26

Roustabout **½ (1964, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Sue Ann Langdon, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Raquel Welch, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 4697

Director John Rich’s 1964 musical is a colourful but routine vehicle for Elvis Presley, though it is notable as one the few times that he had the support of a major star – Barbara Stanwyck. […]

Nov, 25

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami **** (1947, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine, Hugo Haas, Marie Wilson, Albert Bassermann) – Classic Movie Review 4,680

The weird and wonderful 1947 film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami is a witty version of Guy de Maupassant’s novel about a journalist trampling over women on the road to success. George Sanders gives […]

Nov, 21

How Do You Know ** (2010, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 4609

Reese Witherspoon flops as over-the-hill star softball player Lisa (she’s 30) taking stock of her life after being dumped from the team and fretting over which of her two men she should choose. The choice is […]

Nov, 08

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

The Bachelor ** (1999, Chris O’Donnell, Renée Zellweger, Artie Lange, Marley Shelton, Brooke Shields, Mariah Carey, Peter Ustinov, Hal Holbrook, James Cromwell, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 4531

Chris O’Donnell takes the title role, as Jimmie Shannon, a commitment-phobic man who has to marry by the time he is 30 to claim his $100 million inheritance. Drably unfunny and listlessly acted, the story only […]

Oct, 24

Pavilion of Women [Ting Yuan li de nu Ren] *** (2001, Luo Yan, Willem Dafoe, John Cho) – Classic Movie Review 4495

Director Ho Kim’s handsome Chinese 2001 drama stars Luo Yan, who is touching as Madame Wu Ailian, a 40-year-old Chinese wife who falls for an American priest, Father Andre (played by Willem Dafoe), in 1938, when he […]

Oct, 19

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