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Sing As We Go! **** (1934, Gracie Fields, John Loder, Dorothy Hyson) – Classic Movie Review 8429

Director Basil Dean’s bright and breezy 1934 British musical comedy drama Sing as We Go! is by far the most resilient of Gracie Fields’s films, bubbling with the spectacle of Lancashire folk at work and […]

May, 03

These Glamour Girls ** (1939, Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7801

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1939 romantic comedy drama These Glamour Girls highlights class difference when a dance hall hostess girl (Lana Turner) from the wrong side of the tracks is casually invited by a drunken rich young […]

Nov, 18

Hell Fest * (2018, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards, Amy Forsyth, Christian James, Tony Todd) – Movie Review

Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]

Nov, 16

Rollercoaster *** (1977, George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Susan Strasberg, Harry Guardino, Henry Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 5425

Director James Goldstone’s 1977 movie is a smooth-running, fast-paced typically Seventies disaster-movie thriller, produced by Jennings Lang and released by Universal Pictures. It stars George Segal and Richard Widmark as safety-inspector Harry Calder (Segal) and […]

May, 10

Man in the Dark *** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 5186

Director Lew Landers’s 1953 film noir thriller stars the always excellent Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter and Ted de Corsia, is filmed in 3D and is based on a story by Henry Altimus and Tom Van […]

Mar, 21

Adventureland **** (2009, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader) – Classic Movie Review 4317

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be moved if you check out writer-director Greg Mottola’s delightful 2009 bitter-sweet comedy, set in the summer of 1987. It is advertised as ‘from the director of Superbad‘. Jesse Eisenberg […]

Sep, 08

Scooby-Doo *** (2000, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar) – Classic Movie Review 1437

Scooby-Doo, where are you? Oh, there you are, going barking mad as a big-screen cartoon character in an amiably daft live-action teen movie adventure, in which the Mystery Inc gang investigate strange goings on at an […]

Jul, 16

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