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Sommersturm [Summer Storm] *** (2004, Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Miriam Morgenstern, Marlon Kittel, Hanno Koffler) – Classic Movie Review 12,370

The likeable and amusing 2004 German gay coming-of-age comedy-drama film Summer Storm stars Robert Stadlobe as nice Tobi, secretly in love with his rowing team buddy. The girls’ rowing team has to cancel and is […]

Dec, 24

A Yank at Oxford **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 6455

Robert Taylor stars as Lee Sheridan, an arrogant US undergrad among the British dreaming spires in this spirited MGM British comedy, directed Jack Conway in 1937. Naturally, he shows that he is a true blue, […]

Dec, 23

Ben-Hur ** (2016, Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Morgan Freeman) – Movie Review

Remember the infamous old review of William Wyler’s 1959 Ben-Hur: ‘Loved Him, Hated Hur’? Well, the 2016 Ben-Hur provokes the response: ‘Quite liked Him (Jack Huston), didn’t even notice Hur (Nazanin Boniadi)’. At 125 minutes, this […]

Sep, 10

Three Men in a Boat **½ (1956, Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Robertson Hare, Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri, A E Matthews, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4310

All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]

Sep, 06

Oxford Blues * (1984, Rob Lowe, Julian Sands, Michael Gough, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Gail Strickland, Alan Howard, Julian Firth, Cary Elwes) – So Bad It’s Good 14

Blues is right. The 1984 So Bad It’s Good movie Oxford Blues is likely to give you them. The young Rob Lowe is an unlikely Oxford student, but he is effectively slimy in a tweak […]

Aug, 11

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