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Babycakes ** (1989, Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer) – Classic Movie Review 11,855

Director Paul Schneider’s 1989 comedy Babycakes is an entirely unnecessary but pleasantly cast and tasty remake for American TV of Percy Adlon’s 1985 German film Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby], providing a big fat part for Ricki Lake […]

Jan, 17

Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby] *** (1985, Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger, Manuela Denz, Will Spindler) – Classic Movie Review 11,854

Marianne Sägebrecht and Eisi Gulp star in writer-director Percy Adlon’s delightfully quirky and richly enjoyable 1985 German comedy film Zuckerbaby (English title Sugarbaby). It is exuberant, sad and colourful, and attractively played by its two […]

Jan, 17

Dutchman **** (1966, Shirley Knig ht, Al Freeman Jr, Frank Lieberman) – Classic Movie Review 10,517

Neurotic white woman Lula (Shirley Knight) humiliates black New Yorker Clay (Al Freeman Jr) on a subway train, in director Anthony Harvey’s 1966 drama Dutchman, a riveting, intensely played version of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)’s […]

Nov, 09

Crocodile Dundee II ** (1988, Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 9190

Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, […]

Dec, 26

Mr Wonderful *** (1993, Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8574

Anthony Minghella, the director of The Talented Mr Ripley, Truly Madly Deeply and The English Patient, keeps his discreet, delicate, genteel film-making style intact in a move to the more rough and ready world of […]

Jun, 09

Once Upon a Time *** (1944, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson) – Classic Movie Review 8404

Director Alexander Hall’s 1944 black and white satirical comedy Once Upon a Time stars Cary Grant as Jerry Flynn, a canny but cash-strapped theatre producer about to go bust, and story is about the hit […]

Apr, 27

I Take This Woman ** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 7379

Spencer Tracy stars as a New York doctor called Karl Decker who finds it isn’t love after all when he takes this troubled society woman Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr) as his wife, in director W S […]

Jul, 31

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