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Bombshell *** (2019, Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow) – Movie Review

Charlize Theron gives a knockout performance as top news anchor Megyn Kelly, one of group of super-confident women who take on Fox News head Roger Ailes, who apparently presided over a toxic atmosphere at the […]

Jan, 30

Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? ** (1963, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Louis Nye, Macha Méril, Yoko Tani, Allison Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 8585

Director Daniel Mann’s 1963 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? stars Dean Martin as television actor Jason Steel, whose popularity as a sexy star playing a surgeon on a popular TV show leads to a […]

Jun, 12

I Spy ** (2002, Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 4207

Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson play the Sixties TV show characters in director Betty Thomas’s mild, slackly made 2002 action comedy that runs like a poor copy of a Bond movie. Wilson is his usual […]

Aug, 20

The A-Team ** (2010, Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3844

Much, much worse than the movies of other classic TV shows Mission: Impossible or Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team TV movie spinoff is total nonsense, of course. But what else can you expect? The A-Team is […]

Jun, 11

Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Selma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 2488

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1999 comedy Western big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series is carelessly handled and drossily scripted. It must have been a near thing, very touch and go, but Will Smith’s charisma and […]

May, 16

Top Five *** (2014, Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union) – Movie Review

Chris Rock takes a leaf out of Woody Allen’s book, writing, directing and starring in this semi-biographical romantic comedy about Andre Allen, a comedian who’s fed up with being ‘funny’. He decides to try to make […]

May, 06

Quiz Show *** (1994, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2254

Director Robert Redford conscientiously probes the circumstances, characters and issues surrounding the scandal attached to American TV’s rigging of the then famous 1950s quiz show Twenty One. It was so popular that fifty million people watched […]

Mar, 11

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