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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]