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Party Monster *** (2003, Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Diana Scarwid, Chloë Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner, Natasha Lyonne) – Classic Movie Review 2853

It’s a shock in 2003 to see a grown-up Macaulay Culkin (aged 23) in his first film since Getting Even with Dad, The Pagemaster and Richie Rich in 1994 as real-life party organiser Michael Alig, […]

Aug, 27

La Notte [The Night] ***** (1961, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Giorgio Negro, Vincenzo Corbella) – Classic Movie Review 2838

Antonioni entrances us with iconic Sixties actors and scenes from a dying marriage. This much-admired and long-recognised 1961 world cinema classic is one of co-writer/ director Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed and brilliantly stylish Sixties studies in alienation. […]

Aug, 22

La Règle du Jeu [The Rules of the Game] ***** (1939, Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Julien Carette, Paulette Dubost, Roland Toutain) – Classic Movie Review 2791

Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s famous great 1939 French world cinema classic is a poignant, penetrating social comedy set in a grand chateau in the country in France at the onset of World War Two. Guests arrive […]

Aug, 08

Marked Woman **** (1937, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mayo Methot, Jane Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 2,728

In the stalwart 1937 film noir crime drama Marked Woman, Bette Davis shows feisty form as a club hostess or ‘party girl’, whose sister is accidentally killed during one of the unsavoury parties. Humphrey Bogart […]

Jul, 22

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622

Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]

Jun, 21

The Rink **** (1916, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, James T Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 2539

One of Charles Chaplin’s cleverest, most amusing shorts, with the star showing the most amazing balletic skill on the roller-skating rink. Chaplin plays a bumbling waiter who causing causes chaos at work in his v and […]

May, 30

Cherry Falls **½ (2000, Brittany Murphy, Michael Biehn, Jay Mohr, Jesse Bradford, Gabriel Mann) – Classic Movie Review 2154

I know what the teens of Horror High did last summer. They held an orgy to get rid of their virginity so that they would survive a psychotic serial killer of virgins. This daft idea is […]

Feb, 03

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