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The Great Man Votes **** (1939, John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler) – Classic Movie Review 11,327

Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 comedy The Great Man Votes stars John Barrymore as widower Gregory Vance, by day a hard-drinking former Harvard professor and at dark a night watchman, battling to keep and support his children, […]

Jun, 20

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger *** (1960, Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6143

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1960 British mystery horror drama is taken from Roger Emerson Garis’s play The Pony Cart. Gwen Watford and Patrick Allen star as English married couple Sally and Peter Carter, who start a […]

Oct, 25

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ***** (1986, Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara) – Classic Movie Review 1969

  A delightful Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller, an American high school wise guy who is determined to have a day off from school, in writer-director John Hughes’s quintessential eighties teen comedy. Funny, charming and […]

Dec, 17

Matilda **** (1996, Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Pam Ferris, Embeth Daviditz) – Classic Movie Review 1650

Producer/director/star Danny DeVito’s 1996 children’s movie is a splendidly dark, colourful and inspiring family comedy based on the Roald Dahl classic story. Mara Wilson is stupendous as the extremely gifted little girl Matilda Wormwood who […]

Sep, 07

Pump up the Volume (1990, Christian Slater) – Classic Film Review 835

Writer-director Allan Moyle’s 1990 comedy drama stars Christian Slater as an Arizona suburban high school lad called Mark Hunter who moonlights as a pirate radio disc jockey (Hard Harry) in his spare time. He’s infamous […]

Feb, 16

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