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Outlaw Blues *** (1977, Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford, James T Callahan, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 10,272

Director Richard T Heffron’s slack and lazy but very affable 1977 concoction Outlaw Blues stars Peter Fonda as the singing former jailbird Bobby Ogden, whose material, the title song Outlaw Blues, is pirated by an […]

Sep, 07

The Trouble with Girls ** (1969, Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 9574

Elvis Presley gets an acting role as Chautauqua travelling show manager Walter Hale, in director Peter Tewksbury’s 1969 The Trouble with Girls, a tale of a 1920s educational and entertainment travelling tent show, in which […]

Mar, 29

Music Is My Future [Music in Darkness] *** (1948, Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand) – Classic Movie Review 9134

The 1948 Swedish film Music Is My Future [Musik I Mörker] [Music in Darkness] is the fourth film from master film-maker Ingmar Bergman. The screenplay is by Dagmar Edqvist, based on the novel by Dagmar […]

Dec, 07

Men Don’t Leave **** (1990, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Arliss Howard, Joan Cusack, Tom Mason, Chris O’Donnell, Charlie Korsmo) – Classic Movie Review 8772

Director Paul Brickman’s 1989 Men Don’t Leave stars Jessica Lange as Beth Macauley, who is having a terrible time. First her loving husband dies, then she has to sell her house, she loses her job, […]

Jul, 29

The Sweet Ride *** (1968, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Denver) – Classic Movie Review 8738

Director Harvey Hart’s appealing 1968 The Sweet Ride features some of the aimless late-Swinging Sixties beach boys and girls of California’s sun-soaked Malibu coast, who don’t want to grow up, though events conspire to teach […]

Jul, 20

Yesterday ** (2019, Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ed Sheeran, Sarah Lancashire, Alexander Arnold) – Movie Review

Himesh Patel finds himself battling a charmless loser fraudster of a character in director Danny Boyle’s fantasy musical romcom Yesterday (2019). It is really hard to make former teacher, struggling singer songwriter Jack Malik appealing […]

Jun, 11

Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]

May, 25

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