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The Hundred-Foot Journey *** (2014, Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Director Lasse Hallström’s 2014 culture clash foodie movie may be a bit slack, bland and complacent but it is still quite diverting and pretty enjoyable. Its main attraction is that it is starring national treasure Helen […]

Sep, 04

Forget Paris *** (1995, Billy Crystal, Debra Winger) – Classic Movie Review 1592

Written, directed by and starring Billy Crystal, this 1995 romantic comedy sees him as Mickey Gordon, a basketball referee who meets a French-speaking American (Debra Winger) in Paris, where he has arrived to bury his […]

Aug, 25

Chef *** (2014, Jon Favreau) – Movie Review

Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars as talented but obstinate chef Carl Casper, who falls out with his restaurant boss (Dustin Hoffman), quits his chef job and starts up selling from a food truck in this […]

Jun, 26

The Guru (Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham) – Classic Film Review 1049

Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s 2002 comedy is a lot of good-natured, easy-going fun. There’s no mystery here! Jimi Mistry’s got a hit on his hands as Ramu Gupta, a young Indian dance teacher who […]

Apr, 04

The Broken Hearts Club **** (2000, Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Ben Weber, John Mahoney, Mary McCormack, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 929

Writer-director Greg Berlanti’s 2000 comedy is that rare mainstream movie – a quality, funny, perceptive, life-affirming character study of a group of gay men living, loving and bitching in West Hollywood, LA. Happily, in the […]

Mar, 17

School for Scoundrels… Or How to Win Without Actually Cheating! **** (1960, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 894

Ian Carmichael stars in 1960 as the wimpy, bewildered Henry Palfrey, a man afflicted with a giant inferiority complex. He is devastated when sophisticated, flashy rotter Raymond Delouney (Terry-Thomas) makes a play for pretty April Smith […]

Mar, 10

The Odd Couple ***** (1968, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Herb Edelman, Iris Adrian) – Classic Movie Review 708

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon light up the screen with laughter as the quintessential Odd Couple in 1968. Matthau plays the slobbish, grouchy sportswriter Oscar Madison and Lemmon is the houseproud, hypochondriac photographer Felix Ungar, […]

Jan, 17

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