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Posts Tagged "rock band"

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Eat the Rich * (1987, Al Pillay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,764

Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]

Jan, 07

Ferry Cross the Mersey *** (1964, Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, Cilla Black, The Fourmost) – Classic Movie Review 10,748

Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, and Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, aka Gerry and the Pacemakers, star as thinly fictionalised versions of themselves in director Jeremy Summers’s 1964 black and white musical film Ferry Cross the […]

Jan, 04

Shock Treatment * (1981, Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Richard O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 8457

Director Jim Sharman’s 1981 British spoof comedy musical Shock Treatment is writer Richard O’Brien’s misfire sequel to his cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a disappointing Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper as […]

May, 11

More American Graffiti ** (1979, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Richard Bradford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 7857

Director Bill W L Norton’s 1979 sequel More American Graffiti is a slightly disappointing follow-up to the brilliant American Graffiti (1973), with most of the cast returning to tell the tale of the following five […]

Nov, 30

Bohemian Rhapsody ** (2018, Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy) – Movie Review

Bohemian Rhapsody is an interesting music biopic but it is troubled with hesitancies and uncertainties. Rami Malek proves a most interesting choice for the star part. He looks good and is ingratiating in the flamboyant […]

Oct, 26

Leningrad Cowboys Go America **** (1989, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää) – Classic Movie Review 6444

Cult director Aki Kaurismäki’s determinedly oddball 1989 comedy from Finland tells the story of a spectacularly untalented Siberian rock band, the fictional Leningrad Cowboys, travelling across America with their manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) to look for […]

Dec, 20

Scott Pilgrim vs the World **** (2010, Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Ellen Wong, Johnny Simmons, Alison Pill, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman) – Movie Review 5528

Michael Cera is hilarious as 22-year-old geeky, jobless, band member Scott Pilgrim, who is a surprising hit with the girls. Pale and skinny are the new brown and brawny. The only problem is his latest […]

Jun, 01

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