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The Jazz Singer ***** (1927, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer) – Classic Movie Review 4897

It is not as drama that director Alan Crosland’s 1927 Al Jolson musical about a Jewish Cantor’s son who prefers showbiz to the approval of his father is remembered. Nor is it for the performances […]

Jan, 15

Crook’s Tour *** (1941, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt) – Classic Movie Review 4696

The endearing Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne return for the third time in their quintessential Englishmen abroad guise as cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott (after The Lady Vanishes and Night Train to Munich) in director John […]

Nov, 24

The Thing Called Love *** (1993, River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 4558

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]

Oct, 29

Cleo from 5 to 7 [Cléo de 5 à 7] **** (1962, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, José-Luis Villalonga) – Classic Movie Review 4308

One of the key French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movies of the early Sixties, writer-director Agnés Varda’s essential 1962 film drama Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 [Cléo de 5 à 7] – or portrait […]

Sep, 05

Morocco ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4262

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]

Aug, 28

Elvis & Nixon ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks) – Movie Review

Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]

Jul, 01

Expresso Bongo **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard) – Classic Movie Review 3952

Director Val Guest’s 1959 British black and white musical drama Expresso Bongo is a fascinating period piece, and snapshot of a long-ago time and place. It is far more fragrant of its era than the Eighties homage movie […]

Jun, 30

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