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That Certain Feeling * (1956, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8362

Writer-producer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank’s long forgotten 1956 Technicolor comedy That Certain Feeling at least has the great benefit of starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders and Pearl Bailey. Hope plays Francis […]

Apr, 14

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Finding Fatimah *** (2017, Danny Ashok, Asmara Gabrielle, Nina Wadia) – Movie Review

Oz Arshad’s low-budget (£325,000) British Muslim dating romcom is warm and good hearted, and slickly made. Danny Ashok stars as Shahid, a stand-up comedian who struggles to find love in the Asian community because of the […]

Apr, 23

One Spy Too Many *** (1966, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G Carroll, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Yvonne Craig) – Classic Movie Review 4,744

The U.N.C.L.E. men are here again in a third spinoff from the hit Sixties TV show, as agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are threatened by an Edgar Allan Poe-like pendulum, […]

Dec, 03

Cyrus *** (2010, John C Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 4615

When the long-divorced, luck-challenged and spectacularly non-lovely John (John C Reilly) meets the bright and gorgeous middle-aged single mom Molly (Marisa Tomei) at a party, they instantly click and she seems to be exactly the […]

Nov, 08

Barney’s Version **** (2010, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman, Mark Addy, Rachelle Lefevre) – Classic Movie Review 4611

Paul Giamatti rightly won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his marvellously rich, entertaining and rewarding performance as a neurotic, grouchy and straight-talking TV […]

Nov, 08

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

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