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You Can’t Have Everything **** (1937, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Martin) – Classic Movie Review 11,123

Director Norman Taurog’s 1937 all-time classic musical You Can’t Have Everything is an infectiously happy, bright and snazzy 20th Century Fox black and white film, in which starving playwright Judith ‘Judy’ Wells (Alice Faye), a […]

Apr, 21

The Man from Bitter Ridge ** (1955, Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, Trevor Bardette, John Dehner, Ray Teal, Warren Stevens, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 10,955

‘FLAMING DAYS of the Great Mountain Wars!’ Rather primitive acting and basic scripting hold back the interesting and pacy 1955 Universal International Pictures B-movie Eastmancolor Western film The Man from Bitter Ridge. But the political […]

Feb, 23

The Hard Word *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 4889

For some reason sporting a weird prosthetic nose, Guy Pearce leads this in-your-face but jovial, old-style caper thriller about three crook brothers, Dale, Shane and Mal Twentyman (Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson). The three fraternal […]

Jan, 14

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

Prizzi’s Honor ***** (1985, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, William Hickey, John Randolph) – Classic Movie Review 2805

Director John Huston’s absolutely brilliant 1985 black-comedy Mafia movie thriller, based on Richard Condon’s novel, stars Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna, a hitman who works for the Prizzi crime syndicate family. Charley is soon up […]

Aug, 12

Orphans **** (1998, Douglas Henshall, Stephen Cole, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson) – Classic Movie Review 1704

Fasten your seat belts for writer-director Peter Mullan’s excitingly tough and gritty 1998 black-toned comedy drama set in a poor district of Glasgow. There, Mrs Flynn’s four children gather in their late mother’s home on […]

Sep, 22

The Brothers McMullen *** (1995, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Jack Mulcahy, Maxine Bahns) – Classic Movie Review 1609

Producer-writer-director Edward Burns’s 1995 indie hit focuses on three Catholic Irish-American brothers (played by Burns, Mike McGlone and Jack Mulcahy) from Long Island. They are having women problems, with love, marriage and infidelity, and are having […]

Aug, 30

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