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A Perfect Couple **** (1979, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis) – Classic Movie Review 7535

Director Robert Altman’s zany 1979 romantic comedy A Perfect Couple is appealing and effervescent movie, in which the repressed, middle-aged, divorced Greek-American cook/ antique dealer Alex Theodopoulos (Paul Dooley) is computer-dated with much younger rock […]

Sep, 03

Belle of the Nineties **** (1934, Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 7491

Director Leo McCarey’s irresistible 1934 musical comedy drama Belle of the Nineties is a highspot for the 41-year-old Mae West in her fourth film, following She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel, both co-starring Cary […]

Aug, 24

And the Ship Sails On [E La Nave Va] *** (1983, Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier, Janet Suzman) – Classic Movie Review 7375

A luxury liner sails from Naples in 1914 with a boatload of friends and colleagues aboard to scatter the ashes of a great soprano, Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman), in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s stylised 1983 theatrical […]

Jul, 30

Rebel *** (1985, Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7309

Co-writer/ director Michael Jenkins’s 1985 Australian movie Rebel stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous American Marine sergeant Rebel, a traumatised American deserter from World War Two, who, while recuperating from battle, falls for married Aussie nightclub songbird […]

Jul, 19

Dudley Do-Right ** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky, Alex Rocco, Jack Kehler) – Classic Movie Review 7254

Brendan Fraser is sweet and fun as the Royal Canadian Mountie who gets his girl, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker), from the clutches of the wicked villain Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) in writer-director Hugh Wilson’s recklessly silly but […]

Jul, 05

Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review

Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]

Jul, 04

One Night of Love **** (1934, Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 7206

Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1934 Columbia Pictures studio’s Thirties hit classical musical One Night of Love stars opera star Grace Moore as opera star Mary Bennett, who is taken under the wing of famous operatic maestro […]

Jun, 22

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