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Best Friends *** (1982, Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 11,246

Director Norman Jewison’s 1982 comedy Best Friends is a lively vehicle for Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn as Richard and Paula, successful writing and living partners, who after five years make the mistake of marrying […]

May, 27

Girl Stroke Boy (1971, Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Peter Straker) – Classic Movie Review 9340

Director Bob Kellett’s 1971 comedy Girl Stroke Boy is an excruciatingly unfunny, ultra-tacky and tasteless ‘adult’ comedy written by the normally tasteful Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms, both of whom should have known better. It […]

Feb, 02

Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889

Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]

Sep, 09

Our Very Own ** (1950, Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8783

Director David Miller’s good-hearted, sentimental drama 1950 Our Very Own is lovingly crafted but largely wastes the talents of Ann Blyth, Farley Granger and a 12-year-old Natalie Wood. Blyth goes through the motions as Gail […]

Aug, 01

Zee and Co [X, Y and Zee] ** (1972, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 8708

The trashy 1972 drama film Zee and Co is never going to be regarded as Elizabeth Taylor’s best film, but she really puts everything into it to try to make it work. Director Brian G […]

Jul, 14

The Man with Two Brains *** (1983, Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 6895

Director Carl Reiner’s likeable 1983 comedy stars Steve Martin in a rough but ready zany horror spoof about unhappily married neurosurgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin)’s love affair with a woman’s talking brain (voice of Sissy Spacek) that […]

Apr, 07

Everybody Wants Some!! **** (2016, Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman) – Movie Review

Blake Jenner stars as freshman Jake who joins a group of daft college baseball players enjoying the good life in the couple of days before term begins in Richard Linklater’s 1980-set college comedy. Linklater may be old now […]

May, 14

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