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My Dear Secretary ** (1948, Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Rudy Vallee, Helen Walker) – Classic Movie Review 11,261
Director Charles Martin’s 1948 black and white film My Dear Secretary is a romantic comedy in the marital vein with a bestselling romance novel author (Kirk Douglas) whose secretary-turned-wife (Laraine Day) writes a bestseller, much […]
Up Pops the Devil ** (1931, Carole Lombard, Norman Foster, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman) – Classic Movie Review 10,691
Up Pops the Devil (1931) is a strange title for a forgettable role swap, home husband tale of a working wife Anne Merrick (Carole Lombard) helping her writer husband Steve (Norman Foster) by taking a […]
Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1935, Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 9211
Directors William Hamilton and Edward Killy’s 1935 mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the fifth of nine versions of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a mystery writer, William Magee (played by Gene […]
ChickLit ** (2016, Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz, Miles Jupp, David Troughton, Tom Palmer, Eileen Atkins, John Hurt) – Movie Review
Christian McKay, Miles Jupp, David Troughton and Tom Palmer star as four guys trying to save their local pub from closing by writing a chick lit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey-style ‘mummy porn’. McKay takes it to cynical London […]
Misery **** (1990, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3,146
Rob Reiner films Stephen King’s gruesome shocker novel Misery with a relentless tension in this engrossing and startling 1990 horror movie starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen and Lauren Bacall. ‘Oh forgive […]
L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] **** (1977, Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 3017
Director François Truffaut’s incisive and entertaining 1977 romantic comedy L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] boasts a subtle and touching central performance by Charles Denner as Bertrand Morane, the obsessed Frenchman […]
Listen Up Philip **** (2014, Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter) – Movie Review
Jason Schwartzman triumphs over a difficult-to-play, unsympathetic role as the angry, arrogant, conceited writer Philip, awaiting the publication of his second novel. His relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss) is deteriorating, and he refuses […]