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Lady Be Good *** (1941, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 6791

The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]

Mar, 12

Le Bossu [The King’s Avenger] *** (1959, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann) – Classic Movie Review 6785

The dashing Jean Marais stars as Henri de Lagardère, an adventurer knight, who, along with popular French comedian Bourvil as his sidekick Passepoil, performs lots of derring-dos during the Regency of Louis XV, in director […]

Mar, 10

Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710

In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]

Feb, 19

That’s Entertainment, Part II ***** (1975, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6295

Director Gene Kelly’s marvellously entertaining 1975 sequel to Jack Haley Jr’s That’s Entertainment! (1974) boasts some more all-time-great musical sequences from the MGM film library. But this time it also includes some non-musical sequences, with […]

Nov, 23

The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]

Nov, 18

Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208

Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]

Nov, 08

BPM (Beats Per Minute) [120 battements par minute] ***** (2017, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud) – Movie Review

Robin Campillo’s 2017 French activism film and AIDS drama BPM (Beats per Minute) is emotionally overwhelming, incredibly powerful, and truly inspiring. There shouldn’t be a dry eye in the house at the end – and […]

Oct, 07

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