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Tequila Sunrise **** (1988, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J T Walsh, Arliss Howard, Ayre Gross) – Classic Movie Review 7650

The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]

Oct, 09

If I Had My Way ** (1940, Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 7394

Director/ story writer David Butler’s tuneful 1940 musical If I Had My Way tells a weary, laborious yarn, with handling to match, although all the stars Bing Crosby, Charles Winninger, Gloria Jean and El Brendel […]

Aug, 03

Some Voices *** (2000, Daniel Craig, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Graham, Peter McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 6888

Director Simon Cellan Jones’s interesting and worthwhile 2000 dark comedy drama Some Voices features an early full-on performance by Daniel Craig as Ray, a schizophrenic just discharged from psychiatric hospital, who causes havoc in his […]

Apr, 06

They Knew What They Wanted ** (1940, Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey Sr, Frank Fay, Karl Malden, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 6753

A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]

Mar, 01

Innocents in Paris *** (1953, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom, Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Ronald Shiner, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 6571

A great vintage cast of seven British actors play assorted characters who catch the plane from London and spend a weekend in Paris. There they experience amorous and other adventures and kick up a few mild […]

Jan, 16

The Dinner **** (2017, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny) – Movie Review

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall are. And it all because their teenage sons, Charlie Plummer, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick and Miles J Harvey, have got into quite a spot of bother. Coogan […]

Dec, 08

The Glass Castle ** (2017, Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s serious-minded 2017 film is an interesting and conscientious but unconvincingly staged coming-of-age true-life memoir, with neither Brie Larson nor Naomi Watts seen at their best. Woody Harrelson (wearing a dodgy-looking wig) […]

Oct, 02

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