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Cocoon **** (1985, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon) – Classic Movie Review 3065

Don Ameche won the 1986 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as one of the Florida golden boys and girls who are rejuvenated thanks to the magical presence of some pretty pods in the swimming pool they […]

Nov, 14

Encino Man [California Man] **** (1992, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore) – Classic Movie Review 2615

Director Les Mayfield’s 1992 wild and wacky teen comedy is incredibly juvenile but unexpectedly funny and engaging, coming in the wake and style of Bill and Ted and Wayne’s World. It’s now regarded as a classic […]

Jun, 18

Les Diaboliques [Diabolique] ***** (1955, Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault) – Classic Movie Review 2354i

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 French spine-tingling suspense classic is based on the ingenious tale Celle Qui N’Etait Plus by the clever writers of Vertigo, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. This stupendous, vintage gem of a mystery […]

Apr, 04

Lords of Dogtown *** (2005, Heath Ledger, Emil Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano) – Classic Movie Review 1493

Heath Ledger seems to doing a bad Val Kilmer impression as youth guru-like Skip Engblom, co-proprietor of the Zephyr beach sports shop in Venice, California, during the 1970s, in writer Stacy Peralta’s dramatisation of his […]

Jul, 30

Breathless **** (1983, Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky) – Classic Movie Review 1394

Director Jim McBride’s 1983 thriller stars the then young, sexy and underrated Richard Gere, who is on his top 80s form as Jesse Lujack, a preening, unprincipled petty hood on the run after he shoots a policeman. […]

Jul, 05

What Price Hollywood? **** (1932, Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1127

Director George Cukor’s 1932 gleaming comedy treasure is a real vintage treat from the Thirties. It is based on a story by Adela Rogers St Johns, who came up with this idea first, but we […]

Apr, 20

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