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A Foreign Affair **** (1948, Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund) – Classic Movie Review 3926

Director Billy Wilder’s pointed 1948 cynical comedy stars Jean Arthur, who oozes charisma as Phoebe Frost, an American politician on a Congressional committee delegation to US forces in occupied Berlin to investigate GIs’ morals there. Frost’s frostiness […]

Jun, 26

La Vie en Rose [La môme] ***** (2007, Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory) – Classic Movie Review 3904

Marion Cotillard becomes the fourth French person to win an Oscar in a magnificent tour de force as singer Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Among her total of 27 awards for her amazing performance in the film, she […]

Jun, 23

Sing Street **** (2016, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Mark McKenna) – Movie Review

Ferdia Walsh-Peelo stars as Connor ‘Cosmo’ Lawler, a teenage boy growing up in Dublin during the mid-Eighties, who escapes his strained family life with his parents (Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy) by starting a new romantic pop band with […]

May, 19

Kiss Me, Stupid **** (1964, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 3667

Director Billy Wilder’s sharp and funny 1964 comedy provides a grand star showcase for Dean Martin, who sends his image up gamely and delightfully as a hard-drinking, charming and lecherous Las Vegas crooner called Dino with […]

May, 06

The Broadway Melody **** (1929, Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 3624

ALL TALKING! ALL SINGING! ALL DANCING! Director Harry Beaumont’s 1929 movie is the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first musical to win Best Picture Oscar. It is also the first MGM musical […]

Apr, 27

Babes on Broadway **** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Alexander Woolcott, Margaret O’Brien, Virginia Weidler, Ray Macdonald, Richard Quine, Donna Reed, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 3609

Director Busby Berkeley’s infectiously exuberant 1942 follow-up to his 1939 Babes in Arms again teams Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as hopeful talented young performers battling on Broadway, while putting on a show to send […]

Apr, 24

Babes in Arms **** (1939, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 3610

Director Busby Berkeley’s 1939 musical is a triumph for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the first and most famous of their ‘let’s put on a show’ movies, in which the kids of broke performers stage […]

Apr, 24

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