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The Black Bird * (1975, George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 11,828
Writer-director David Giler’s 1975 comedy The Black Bird is a genial but lame parody of the John Huston film version of The Maltese Falcon (1941), or possibly comedy sequel to The Maltese Falcon, that would have been more welcome […]
The Falls *** (1980, Colin Cantlie, Hilarie Thompson, Sheila Canfield, Adam Leys, Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray) – Classic Movie Review 10,651
Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]
Bullshot * (1983, Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E House) – Classic Movie Review 10,585
Bullshot: ‘Is this seemly, Mrs Platt-Higgins, playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?’ Director Dick Clement’s silly 1983 British comedy Bullshot is a strained slapstick spoof of Bulldog Drummond, based on a play […]
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990, Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick) – Classic Movie Review 9328
Director Dirk Campbell’s 1990 British comedy horror movie I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is a ridiculous vampire spoof with a plot about a possessed Norton motorcycle, bought by Birmingham bike courier Noddy (Neil Morrissey). It […]
Hot Shots! Part Deux ***½ (1993, Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8863
Director Jim Abrahams’s 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux brings back Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley when US president Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges) sends a commando team into Iraq to rescue the men who went in […]
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn *** (1956, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery) – Classic Movie Review 8555
Director Joseph Sterling’s 1956 surreal spoof comedy The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn is a precious memento of BBC radio’s The Goon Show, in which Peter Sellers does his deaf and senile character Henry Crun […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ***** (2018, Tim Blake Nelson, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson, Saul Rubinek, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, James Franco, Jonjo O’Neill, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review
Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]