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Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s pleasant 1939 Columbia Pictures 65-minute black and white comedy Beware Spooks! is a moderately well made, mildly amusing vehicle for Joe E Brown’s knockabout antics as jittery, bumbling cop Roy Gifford, who first […]
Brendan Fraser is sweet and fun as the Royal Canadian Mountie who gets his girl, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker), from the clutches of the wicked villain Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) in writer-director Hugh Wilson’s recklessly silly but […]
Director Robert Redford’s impeccably filmed 1988 saga The Milagro Beanfield War hones in on a battle in the American Southwest between New Mexican farmers and the bad guys who want to develop their land for […]
Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]
Takeshi Kitano’s highly promising director debut shows much of the sharp and quirky style that was to come to its acme in Sonatine (1993). Kitano’s taut and exciting 1989 Japanese film has a relentless pace that suddenly […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1965 British independent film thriller stars Tom Bell as burglar Peter Rayston, who comes out of jail for the eighth time and has a little love with the easily-led social worker Joanne (Judi […]