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Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058

Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]

Nov, 14

Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808

Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Nov, 05

Simone [S1m0ne] *** (2002, Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1790

Writer-director Andrew Niccol’s bright 2002 fantasy comedy drama S1m0ne provides an excellent vehicle for Al Pacino as a failing film-maker called Viktor Taransky who constructs a ‘synthespian’. Taransky’s film is endangered when his star walks off, […]

Oct, 31

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ***** (1960, Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Shirley Anne Field, Norman Rossington, Hylda Baker) – Classic Movie Review 1,476

Director Karel Reisz’s compelling and convincing 1960 movie version of Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling 1958 first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning made a new international star out of Albert Finney, almost overnight. Finney plays the […]

Jul, 26

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

O Lucky Man! ***** (1973, Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 474

Malcolm McDowell, who played the hero of If…, stars in Lindsay Anderson’s superb 1973 satirical life allegory about Mick Travis, now involved in the shady work of big business. The 1973 film O Lucky Man! […]

Dec, 05

This Sporting Life ***** (1963, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 190

All-time great British director Lindsay Anderson’s searing film This Sporting Life is an authentic British classic of the short-lived but influential and vibrant 60s realist new wave movement. Kitchen sink drama, it was called back then. […]

Aug, 25

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