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Another Fine Mess *** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Thelma Todd, Charles Gerrard, Eddie Dunn, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7407
‘Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy have many ups and downs. – Mr Hardy takes charge of the upping and Mr Laurel does most of the downing.’ The title Another Fine Mess gives away director James […]
A Prize of Arms *** (1962, Stanley Baker, Tom Bell, Helmut Schmid, John Phillips, Tom Adams, Anthony Bate, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6327
The perfect crime goes astray- like it always does in the movies – in director Cliff Owen’s 1961 realist British noir thriller starring Stanley Baker as Turpin, a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on […]
Trading Places ***** (1983, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Movie Review 5340
Director John Landis’s 1983 delightful movie is a wonderful old-style comedy with rousing star-making performances from Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III, a rich, snobbish, well-bred American investor executive and Eddie Murphy as a poor, […]
The Big Bounce * (2004, Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones, Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 4460
Director George Armitage’s 2004 remake of the Ryan O’Neal-Leigh Taylor-Young 1969 caper thriller The Big Bounce is a total non-event and no better – actually worse – than the vapid, long forgotten original. With an […]
Deception * (2008, Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Andrew Ginsburg) – Classic Movie Review 4341
Nerdy New York accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) meets slick lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who draws him an into the twilight world of an elite Manhattan dating club, where high fliers meet for no-strings […]
The Vault of Horror ** (1973, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Curt Jurgens, Dawn Addams, Glynis Johns, Denholm Elliott, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 3116
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 chiller brings five more horror tales of the unexpected that make up Amicus’s sixth portmanteau movie. A follow-up to 1972’s Tales from the Crypt, it is written by Amicus producer Milton […]
Palmetto ** (1998, Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny) – Classic Movie Review 2017
Director Volker Schlöndorff‘s 1998 thriller is an interesting failure as a fatally flawed version of James Hadley Chase’s novel Just Another Sucker, adapted here by screenwriter E Max Frye. Woody Harrelson stars as Harry Barber, […]