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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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Cecil B DeMented **½ (2000, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Maggie Gyllenhall) – Classic Movie Review 4005
Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]
The Band Wagon ***** (1953, Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray) – Classic Movie Review 3637
Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray kick up a sensational storm in writers Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alan Jay Lerner’s superlative MGM Technicolor backstage musical, directed in 1953 by […]
Hail, Caesar! *** (2016, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill) – Movie Review
Josh Brolin stars as Eddie Mannix, a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the Fifties, who solves problems for big Tinseltown names. George Clooney co-stars as studio star Baird Whitlock, who disappears, kidnapped from the […]
The Big Knife **** (1955, Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloan, Ilka Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3405
Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? **** (1957, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx) – Classic Film Review 3248
Writer-producer-director Frank Tashlin follows up his 1956 success The Girl Can’t Help It that made a movie star of Jayne Mansfield by making a film of her concurrent stage success Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 with Mansfield and […]
Entourage *** (2015, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven) – Movie Review
The eight-season TV series Entourage (2004–2011) is resurrected as a movie, Spooks-style, courtesy its creator Doug Ellin as writer-director and Mark Wahlberg as producer. Adrian Grenier returns as film star Vince Chase, who navigates the vapid […]
America’s Sweethearts ***½ (2001, Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Seth Green) – Classic Movie Review 2521
Billy Crystal bites the hand that feeds him in his cracking (co-written) screenplay for director Joe Roth’s sparkling 2001 Hollywood comedy. And, Crystal included, called he’s got just the right cast to make it sizzle. […]