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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart *** (1970, Don Johnson, Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull, Victoria Racimo) – Classic Movie Review 10,248

Director Leonard J Horn’s 1970 The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart stars a very young and sweet-looking Don Johnson in his film debut as the 23-year-old home-movie addict Columbia University student dropout Stanley Sweetheart, blowing […]

Aug, 31

Peter and Pavla [Cerný Petr] [Black Peter] **** (1964, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil) – Classic Movie Review 7042

Director Milos Forman’s fresh, lively and delightful 1964 Czechoslovak feature debut (after three documentaries) is a satirical comedy drama full of youthful enthusiasm. Ladislav Jakim plays the young shop detective Peter [Petr], who is getting […]

May, 12

Closely Observed Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky] **** (1966, Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský) – Classic Movie Review 6930

Co-writer/ director Jirí Menzel won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1968 for his affecting and entertaining 1966 Czechoslovakian satirical comedy Closely Observed Trains about the efforts of an apprentice guard (Václav Neckár) at […]

Apr, 16

A Street Cat Named Bob **** (2016, Luke Treadaway, Bob the Cat, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head) – Movie Review

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 2015 feel good true story comedy drama is a loveable boy meets cat, falls for cat, lives happily ever after love story. Luke Treadaway as the boy is nearly as cute and good […]

Nov, 01

Knife in the Water [Nóz w wodzie] **** (1962, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz) – Classic Movie Review 3946

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s 1962 Polish first feature film tells of a bored, aging husband and wife couple, Andrjez and Krystyna (Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka) whose bourgeois conformism is shaken up by a hitch-hiking beatnik young man (Zygmunt […]

Jun, 29

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

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