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Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances de M Hulot] ***** (1953, Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Louis Pérault) – Classic Movie Review 2408

French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance. Joining the post-war holiday-making classes, Monsieur Hulot goes for an August […]

Apr, 19

Room at the Top **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1483

Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]

Jul, 27

Rush Hour 2 *** (2001, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 1343

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up again as Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter for the first sequel to their 1998 blockbuster. This time they get involved in more crime-fighting chaos when they take […]

Jun, 21

The Net *** (1995, Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam) – Classic Movie Review 1192

Sandra Bullock discovers a hi-tech conspiracy in director Irwin Winkler’s half-decent 1995 thriller that stays involving even though it’s saddled with a plot so predictable you just beg for at least one surprise. Bullock plays […]

May, 09

Greenberg **** (2010, Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifans) – Classic Movie Review 814

Ben Stiller does well in a straightish role as 40ish layabout Roger Greenberg, who is making a five-course banquet out of his middle-age crisis, in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s intelligent and entertaining, if rather depressingly sad, bitter-sweet […]

Feb, 08

Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] ***** (1971, Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Film Rview 607

Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]

Jan, 02

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation *** (1989, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki) – Classic Movie Review 569

Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo welcome in a disaster-strewn Griswold-style Christmas with their two kids (Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis), in their third Vacation movie. Yule crack up, or yule be sorry you started watching this? […]

Dec, 23

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