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The Mating Season *** (1951, Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 5707

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1951 comedy stars Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins and Thelma Ritter. Irritatingly dull performances from leads Lund and Tierney nearly sink a comedy story of the working-class boy named Val McNulty […]

Jul, 03

Date Night ** (2010, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 5529

It’s time we had a really good comedy thriller again – it’s just this isn’t it. Likeable Steve Carell and Tina Fey have the right funny stuff as Phil and Claire Foster, an over-busy New […]

Jun, 01

The Black Sheep of Whitehall ***½ (1942, Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier, Felix Aylmer, Henry Hewitt, Thora Hird, Ronald Shiner, Joss Ambler) – Classic Movie Review 4538

Co-director Basil Dearden’s funny, fast-paced 1942 British World War Two comedy for Ealing Studios features Will Hay in his familiar and beloved joke schoolmaster guise as Professor Davis, a soppy schoolmaster teaching at a correspondence college who is […]

Oct, 26

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

Maid in Manhattan *** (2002, Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes) – Classic Movie Review 1338

Director Wayne Wang’s 2002 romcom is bright and lovely. Jennifer Lopez plays a New York hotel maid trying on rich socialite Natasha Richardson’s clothes when politician Ralph Fiennes, a candidate for the Senate, takes her […]

Jun, 20

Bringing Up Baby ***** (1938, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Fritz Feld) – Classic Film Review 1,229

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film Bringing Up Baby is the quintessential 30s screwball comedy, providing a perfect showcase for the ultimate in polished zany performances from its all-time great stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary […]

May, 18

The Pallbearer *** (1996, David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Classic Movie Review 1170

David Schwimmer is very amusing as Tom Thompson, an agreeable young man corralled in as the pallbearer for a high-school buddy he hardly remembers by the deceased’s amorous mom (Barbara Hershey). Co-writer/director Matt Reeves excellent, […]

May, 02

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