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Desperate Living *** (1977, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4100

John Waters’s 1977 gross-out bad taste comedy stars Mink Stole as desperately unhappy, crazy rich housewife Peggy Gravel who smothers her hubby to death, helped by her enormously tubby maid Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill), who […]

Jul, 30

The BFG **½ (2016, Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

The 12-year-old Cheshire girl Ruby Barnhill plays orphan Sophie who gets a big fat scare, and then an awfully big adventure when she meets the 24-foot Big Friendly Giant (a digitalised Mark Rylance). Though he has abducted her […]

Jul, 22

The Princess Diaries 2: The Royal Engagement *** (2004, Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Callum Blue, Chris Pine) – Classic Movie Review 4062

Comedy and complications rule the day as most of the original cast and film-makers from the 2001 smash-hit The Princess Diaries return for director Garry Marshall’s sweet and amusing 2004 Disney romantic comedy sequel. The bright and […]

Jul, 21

Mary of Scotland *** (1936, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 3925

A valiant Katharine Hepburn heads a game, if largely ill-suited, cast in director John Ford’s intriguing but shaky 1936 film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage verse drama about the recently widowed Mary Stuart (Hepburn), who returns […]

Jun, 26

Alice in Wonderland *** (2010, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway) – Classic Movie Review 3715

Tim Burton’s sweet and nice 2010 Disney movie is a pleasant plod through English literature, aimed particularly at teenaged girls and their mothers. It is pleasing and lovely to look at but disappointingly mild, bland […]

May, 17

Knights of the Round Table **** (1953, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Baker, Anne Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 3653

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1953 British Arthurian adventure once again examines the endlessly fascinating Camelot love triangle and the battling Knights of the Round Table. MGM sends over its glamorous stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Mel Ferrer. King […]

May, 03

Black Knight ** (2001, Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Greg Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 3644

Martin Lawrence plays an employee at a run-down medieval theme park, who falls, knocks himself out and wakes up in 14th-century England. The star is on fairly zesty form as Jamal Walker / Skywalker in director […]

May, 02

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