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Paris When It Sizzles * (1964, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 11,128

Director Richard Quine’s 1964 film Paris When It Sizzles is a star-studded comedy lacking both style and panache. It wastes the many talents of its stars on a torpor-inducing script, based on a French original […]

Apr, 23

W C Fields and Me ** (1976, Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 9451

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1976 Tinseltown biopic W C Fields and Me stars Rod Steiger, who impersonates the great comedian, drinker and baby-hater in an amusing Seventies showbiz saga based loosely on the memoirs of his […]

Mar, 01

Tropic Holiday ** (1938, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 9214

Director Theodore Reed’s 1939 musical comedy Tropic Holiday stars Ray Milland as Hollywood film screenwriter Ken Warren, who, for sweet inspiration, travels to Mexico, where he falls for the lovely Manuela (Dorothy Lamour). Tropic Holiday […]

Jan, 02

I Ought to Be in Pictures *** (1982, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 8318

Director Herbert Ross’s 1982 I Ought to Be in Pictures is a minor Neil Simon comedy drama from Walter Matthau’s latter period of decline, but it is still a fairly pleasing picture. Dinah Manoff tries […]

Mar, 31

That Good Night *** (2017, John Hurt, Sofia Helin, Max Brown, Charles Dance, Erin Richards) – Movie Review

So very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely, but it is almost unbearable to watch a dying man play a dying man. That Good Night is so very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely in […]

May, 16

The Muse *** (1999, Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Jeff Bridges, Andie MacDowell) – Classic Movie Review 6221

Albert Brooks and Sharon Stone sparkle in co-writer/ director Albert Brooks’s slight but amusing 1999 Hollywood comedy yarn about a struggling screenwriter (Brooks) whose crumbling career has just hit rock bottom when a wealthy producer […]

Nov, 10

Mistress ** (1992, Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 5787

Robert Wuhl stars as Marvin Landisman, a screenwriter-director whose old movie script is liked by a producer, Jack Roth (Martin Landau). But every potential financial backer (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli Wallach) has a […]

Jul, 18

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