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My Blue Heaven *** (1990, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Bill Irwin, Carol Kane, Ed Lauter, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 11,293

Director Herbert Ross’s 1990 droll comedy My Blue Heaven stars Steve Martin as bon viveur Mafia informant ‘Vinnie’ Antonelli, who is transplanted to a sleepy California town in the witness protection programme under the protection […]

Jun, 10

Laura Lansing Slept Here *** (1988, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 10,374

Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1988 made-for-TV comedy Laura Lansing Slept Here provides a tailor-made role for Katharine Hepburn, playing Laura Lansing, a character much like herself, an indomitable old novelist who, when told by her agent […]

Oct, 01

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend [L’Ami de Mon Amie] [Boyfriends and Girlfriends] **** (1987, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury) – Classic Movie Review 8428

The 1987 My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend [L’Ami de Mon Amie] [Boyfriends and Girlfriends] is yet another in French writer-director Eric Rohmer’s superb series of gentle tales of love and life in France. It stars Emmanuelle Chaulet, […]

May, 03

Bless This House *** (1972, Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson, Robin Askwith, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 6881

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1972 British TV spin-off movie from the Thames Television series Bless This House provides a showcase for a treasure trove of British comedy greats, and is valuable and enjoyable for that. Bless […]

Apr, 03

The Next Voice You Hear… ** (1950, James Whitmore, Nancy Reagan, Gary Gray) – Classic Movie Review 6713

In director William A Wellman’s comforting, unusual 1950 drama The Next Voice You Hear…, the voice of God is broadcast on the radio across the globe over a week, and it has a deep effect […]

Feb, 20

Avalon *** (1990, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6408

Writer-director Barry Levinson’s 50-year saga of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in Baltimore is warmly acted by a strong cast, looks superb thanks to cinematographer Allen Daviau and is quite involving and entertaining. It was nominated […]

Dec, 14

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