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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes ** (1969, Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 10,963

Director Robert Butler’s 1969 sci-fi family comedy film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes stars the 18-year-old Kurt Russell as student Dexter Riley, who gets his wires in a twist and becomes a genius thanks to […]

Feb, 25

Personal Services **** (1987, Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox) – Classic Movie Review 7035

Director Terry Jones’s 1987 British comedy drama Personal Services finds a perfectly cast Julie Walters on great, exuberant form and having a grand old time as brothel madam Christine, inspired by the real-life south London […]

May, 11

King of the Underworld *** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 5,067

‘EXCITEMENT…WITH THE SILENCERS OFF!’ Director Lewis Seiler’s 1939 Warner Bros thriller film stars Humphrey Bogart and Kay Francis and is based on the story Dr Socrates by W R Burnett. Francis stars as Dr Carol […]

Feb, 26

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom *** (1975, Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Franco Merli, Sergio Fascetti) – Classic Movie Review 3199

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]

Dec, 30

Eastern Boys **** (2013, Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov) – Movie Review

Tense and twisty but realistic and raunchy, this is an excellent French gay thriller from writer-director Robin Campillo. Olivier Rabourdin stars as Daniel Muller, a discreet gay man in his late fifties who has his eye […]

Jan, 07

Léon *** [Léon: The Professional] (1994, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1244

This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]

May, 24

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