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Delicatessen **** (1991, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac) – Classic Movie Review 6656

French writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s brilliant 1991 Gothic nightmare Delicatessen stars Dominique Pinon as a Louison, circus clown who takes work with a butcher called Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who is chopping people up. Soon the […]

Feb, 07

Her Jungle Love *** (1938, Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5737

The genial Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland are back in the Paramount Pictures studio jungle (after their 1936 hit The Jungle Princess) for this second romantic comedy adventure, directed by George Archainbaud in 1938. It […]

Jul, 09

Work is a Four-Letter Word * (1968, David Warner, Cilla Black, Elizabeth Spriggs, Zia Mohyeddin, Alan Howard, David Waller) – Classic Movie Review 2783

Henry Livings’s award-winning absurdist play Eh? about giant magic mushrooms gets a livelier title and the then Sixties pop princess Cilla Black, plus a classy star in David Warner, posh theatre director in Peter Hall and […]

Aug, 05

Superman and the Mole Men *** (1951, George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2243

After a couple of serials, director Lee Sholem’s engaging 1951 comic book fantasy Superman and the Mole Men is the first Superman cinema feature. George Reeves takes over from Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent and Phyllis […]

Mar, 07

The Boxtrolls **** (2014, voices Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost) – Movie Review

Cute and deliciously quirky animation in which Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright), a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors, tries to save his friends from the evil exterminator Archibald Snatcher. It remains winsome and […]

Sep, 11

Tremors **** (1990, Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire) – Classic Film Review 1402

Director Ron Underwood’s 1990 comedy horror thriller Tremors puts a great big smile on your face. In Underwood’s, S S Wilson’s and Brent Maddock’s witty screenplay, there’s a bunch of pesky, always hungry monster worms […]

Jul, 07

Twelve Monkeys [12 Monkeys] ***** (1995, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 689

‘Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys.’ Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt kick up a storm in director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling-looking, […]

Jan, 18

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