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Everyone Says I Love You **** (1996, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1800

In writer-director Woody Allen’s 1996 comedy, Everyone Says ‘I Loved Making This Movie’ but No One Says’ I Can Sing’. Joe (Allen) fancies pretty woman Von (Julia Roberts) in Venice in this quite delicious musical […]

Nov, 03

Yankee Doodle Dandy ***** (1942, James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, Vera Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 1589

Director Michael Curtiz’s triumphant triple-Oscar-winning 1942 dramatic musical showbiz biopic of the life of renowned American musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singing star George M Cohan is gloriously rumbustious and effervescent. Packed with toe-tapping […]

Aug, 25

Detour ***** (1945, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald) – Classic Movie Review 1547

‘Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or on me for no good reason at all.’ Edgar G Ulmer’s all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller Detour is a deservedly celebrated […]

Aug, 15

Last Days *** (2005, Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento) – Classic Movie Review 1375

Writer-producer-director Gus Van Sant’s 2005 Seattle-set rock ‘n roll drama is a fictionalised account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Michael Pitt stars as a character called Blake, based on Cobain, who is collapsing […]

Jun, 29

Swingers ****½ (1996, Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Patrick Van Horn, Ron Livingston, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 981

Director Doug Liman’s fresh and 1996 funny comedy focuses on four madly anxious, self-deluded swingers (Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Patrick Van Horn, Ron Livingston) who head for Las Vegas in search of a good time […]

Mar, 25

Guys and Dolls **** (1955, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 925

The four-Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz films one of Broadway’s finest, all-time-great shows, based on the famous short stories by Damon Runyon. He turns it into a genially pleasing, attractively easy-going, if none too cinematic […]

Mar, 17

High Fidelity **** (2000, John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 876

Director Stephen Frears’s amusing and very popular 2000 comedy High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the 30-something owner of the Championship Vinyl record shop, who reminisces about his lost loves. It is the slightly […]

Mar, 07

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