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Adoring [Chong ai] *** (2019, Wallace Chung, Beibi Gong, Landi Li) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Larry Yang’s always likeable, often charming Chinese multi-story comedy drama Adoring [Chong ai] (2019) is a happy New Year movie intertwining half a dozen stories about pets and their owners. Oh, good heavens, […]

Jan, 14

Mondo Trasho *** (1969, Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4101

A bizarre, insane 1969 early macabre comedy feature from John Waters, the Pope of Trash, who shows that anyone can make a movie, provided you’ve got some colourful friends. It is his first feature after […]

Jul, 30

A Private Function **** (1984, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4066

Director Malcolm Mowbray’s delightful 1984 comedy film realises Alan Bennett’s highly amusing pig tale about a late-1940s Northern England doctor’s family who raise an illegal porker and fatten it up for a royal wedding banquet. […]

Jul, 22

The Black Cauldron *** (1985, voices of Grant Bardsley, Freddie Jones, Susan Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 3710

Directors Ted Berman and Richard Rich’s intriguing and underrated 1985 Walt Disney sword and sorcery animated feature tells the story of the young farm lad Taran in the land of Prydain in the Middle Ages […]

May, 15

Angry Birds *** (2016, voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride) – Movie Review

Jason Sudeikis voices Red, a bird with a bad temper problem, who is sent to an anger management class after shoving the pie he’s supposed to be delivering to a birthday party in someone’s face. Yep, […]

May, 11

Pigsty [Porcile] *** (1969, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti, Anne Wiazemsky) – Classic Movie Review 3271

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 metaphorical drama is bleak and alienating though commendably ambitious and powerful all the same, as you’d expect from him. Pasolini scatters challenging ideas and images all over the screen but he […]

Jan, 16

Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 horror movie Strait-Jacket as an axe-wielding killer. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up her success in […]

Jan, 08

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