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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
- The Astronaut Lovers [Los Amantes Astronautas] *** (2024, Javier Orán, Lautaro Bettoni, Ailín Salas) – Classic Movie Review 13,205
Posts Tagged "summer"
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Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] **** (1968, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Jana Drchalová, Jirí Menzel) – Classic Movie Review 9261
Co-writer/ director/ star Jiri Menzel’s 1968 Czech film Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] delivers a diverting, well-characterised, sadness-tinged comedy mistily and delicately set in the past. Menzel plays the tightrope balancer Arnostek and Jana Drchalová [Jana […]
Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] ***** (1946, Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D’Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 8979
Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]
The Workshop [L’atelier] **** (2017, Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean) – Movie Review
Marina Foïs stars as middle-aged Paris writer Olivia, who comes to the formerly prosperous, now depressed shipyard town La Ciotat, near Marseilles, one summer to hold a literary workshop for a small group of seven late teenagers […]
Confessions from a Holiday Camp ** (1977, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Sheila White, Doris Hare, Liz Fraser, Linda Hayden, John Junkin, Lance Percival, David Auker) – Classic Movie Review 6,876
The gang is back for the 1977 sex comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp, the fourth and final saucy outing, revealing what Timmy Lea (Robin Askwith) and Sid Noggett (Anthony Booth) get up to […]
Meatballs *** (1979, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Cindy Girling, Todd Hoffman, Keith Knight, Chris Makepeace) – Classic Movie Review 6519
Director Ivan Reitman hits it big in 1979 with his first mainstream movie, an amiable if fairly crass teen comedy about a load of nincompoops enjoying summer on a holiday camp – a well tried and […]
Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317
Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]
Ava **** (2017, Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano) – Movie Review
Noée Abita gives an extraordinary, knockout performance as the 13-year-old Ava, who is spending the summer at the seaside on the French sandy coast with her single mum Maud (Laure Calamy) and baby sister. Ava […]