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My Favorite Year **** (1982, Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna) – Classic Movie Review 5039
The favorite year is 1954, and, in America’s golden age of television, a hard-drinking, dissolute Hollywood matinée idol star, Alan Swann (Peter O’Toole), is slated to appear on a Sid Caesar-style live TV variety show. […]
Splendor **** (1989, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady) – Classic Movie Review 4048
Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]
Fahrenheit 451 **** (1966, Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell, Michael Balfour, Ann Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3012
François Truffaut’s love of books shines through his thoroughly compelling and intriguing adaptation from Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel of his 1984-style sci-fi story about a typically oppressive, dystopian future world where books have been outlawed […]
Darling **** (1965, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 2,270
John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]
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 […]
I’m All Right Jack ***** (1959, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, John le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 1850
Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1959 comedy I’m All Right Jack showcases one of Peter Sellers’s all-time greatest performances as the canny but blinkered and blustering union boss, shop steward Fred Kite, who […]
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed *** (Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Movie Review 1555
A masked villain plots to take over the Coolsville Museum of Criminology by having fun with a ‘monster machine’. The funny, bendy, appealing Matthew Lillard again raises most of the laughs in this likeable sequel […]