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A Summer’s Tale [Conte d’été] *** (1996, Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin) – Classic Movie Review 4249

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s oh so French 1996 romantic drama A Summer’s Tale [Conte d’été] is engaging, appealing and eventually quite touching, even if it is not quite from the great director’s top drawer because of […]

Aug, 27

The Wedding March ***** (1928, Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4227

Ring the bells for this exhilarating silent movie classic, wayward director Erich von Stroheim’s last masterpiece, beautifully restored in a shining new print. The director himself entertainingly over-acts as Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg – Nikki […]

Aug, 24

Ae Fond Kiss… **** (2004, Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz) – Classic Movie Review 4215

Romeo and Juliet in Glasgow. Strict Pakistani Scot Casim (Atta Yaqub) is set to marry Jasmine, a cousin he has never met, thanks to the arrangement made by his traditional family. But then it is […]

Aug, 21

Step Brothers **** (2008, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4186

Will Ferrell and John C Reilly’s second movie together, 2008’s riotous Step Brothers, follows 2006’s uneven Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. In the admirably silly story by Ferrell, Reilly and director Adam McKay, the duo play middle-aged slacker […]

Aug, 17

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

Simply Irresistible *** (1999, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Patricia Clarkson) – Classic Movie Review 4172

Sarah Michelle Gellar is simply irresistible in director Mark Tarlov’s 1999 surprise comedy flop, a sweet, positive, life-affirming charmer, very nicely written by Judith Roberts, Tarlov’s wife. It is delicate and whismical, and highly romantic, this […]

Aug, 14

Next Stop Wonderland ***½ (1998, Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Holland Taylor, Robert Klein, Cara Buono, José Zúñiga) – Classic Movie Review 4082

The advertising tells you most of what you need to know about co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s appealing, nicely acted 1998 romantic comedy drama: ‘Dating is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going […]

Aug, 13

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