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The Mambo Kings ***** (1992, Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Pablo Calogero, Desi Arnaz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9530

Producer-director Arne Glimcher’s brilliant, beguling 1992 musical drama The Mambo Kings is the musical film as a style object. Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas star in a soulful love story with music about two brothers […]

Mar, 20

The Unknown **** (1927, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz) – Classic Movie Review 9120

Lon Chaney Sr heads a fine cast as Alonzo, an armless knife thrower circus fakir, in director Tod Browning’s intriguing and engagingly weird, though less-famous 1927 MGM silent chiller The Unknown. Alonzo is literally a […]

Dec, 03

Lord Love a Duck *** (1966, Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 9030

Director George Axelrod’s 1966 romantic comedy drama Lord Love a Duck stars Roddy McDowall, then 38 in real life, who plays the ever-youthful, brilliant high school senior Alan Musgrave making innocent co-student Barbara Ann Greene […]

Oct, 30

The Divorce of Lady X **** (1938, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8685

Director Tim Whelan’s fun and carefree 1938 British screwball romantic comedy drama The Divorce of Lady X stars Laurence Olivier as barrister Everard Logan, a divorce lawyer who thinks widowed Lord Steele (Morton Selten)’s daughter […]

Jul, 08

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1999, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Sophie Marceau, Christian Bale, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 7839

‘Love makes fools of us all.’ Writer-producer-director Michael Hoffman brings William Shakespeare’s most magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to an unexpected time and place – Tuscany at the end of the 19th century. Amid […]

Nov, 27

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1985, Lindsay Kemp, Manuela Vargas, Jack Birkett, François Testory, David Meyer, Neil Caplan, Michael Matou, David Haughton) – Classic Movie Review 7838

Lindsay Kemp’s Company brings its London stage production of the William Shakespeare play to the screen with colourful success in director Celestino Coronada’s 1985 Spanish-UK TV movie A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As Puck (Lindsay Kemp) […]

Nov, 27

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1968, Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Selby, David Warner, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Judi Dench, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7837

The Royal Shakespeare Company brings its Peter Hall-directed London stage production of the ever-popular William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the screen with practised success and delightful performances from a tip-top Sixties cast, […]

Nov, 27

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