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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man **** (1939, W C Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 11,124

W C Fields stars as seedy circus owner Larson E Whipsnade: ‘Why, some of my best friends are snakes’…  The often extremely funny 1939 black and white madcap screwball comedy You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man […]

Apr, 22

Meet the Feebles * (1989, Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie) – Classic Movie Review 8417

‘From the creators of Bad Taste, comes a film with no taste at all!’ Director Peter Jackson’s warped, outrageous and disgusting 1989 New Zealand musical black comedy cult movie Meet the Feebles establishes his horror […]

May, 01

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich * (2018, Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Nelson Franklin, Udo Kier) – Movie Review

Directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund’s Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) is a lively, unpleasant and brilliantly tacky Z-grade reboot of the Eighties Puppet Master franchise. With its gleeful black comedy tone and lack […]

Apr, 21

Puppet Master [Puppetmaster] *** (1989, Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle, Jimmie F Skaggs) – Classic Movie Review 8378

Director David Schmoeller’s 1989 Puppet Master is a bright little Eighties horror flick with a loony plot, based on a story by Charles Band and Kenneth J Hall, with a screenplay by David Schmoeller (billed […]

Apr, 18

Lili **** (1953, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kurt Kasznar, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake, Alex Gerry) – Classic Movie Review 6196

Director-choreographer Charles Walters’s captivating, Oscar-winning 1953 MGM musical stars Leslie Caron as the naive French orphan and teenager Lili. She joins a travelling carnival as a waitress and meets a sad puppeteer called Paul (Mel Ferrer) […]

Nov, 05

Jacquot de Nantes **** (1991, Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier) – Classic Movie Review 5194

Writer-director Agnès Varda’s 1991 French documentary is a charming, bitter-sweet tribute to French film-maker Jacques Demy (nickname Jacquot) by his wife Varda, who shared his life from 1958 till his death on 27 October 1990, aged 59. Varda’s […]

Mar, 23

The Adventures of Pinocchio *** (1996, Martin Landau, Udo Keir, Geneviève Bujold, voice of Jonathan Taylor Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 5079

Despite some wooden scripting, director Steve Barron’s 1996 children’s movie The Adventures of Pinocchio is still an enchanting live-action version of Italian author Carlo Collodi’s beloved classic book for kids. Martin Landau is captivating as […]

Feb, 28

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