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Tortilla Flat *** (1942, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 10,758

Director Victor Fleming’s 1942 MGM black and white drama Tortilla Flat is a well-acted and appealing version of John Steinbeck’s novel of life among the Mexican-American peasants of Monterey in California. There is plenty of […]

Jan, 06

Real Men (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,744

Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]

Jan, 03

The Real McCoy * (1993, Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 10,743

Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]

Jan, 03

Real Life *** (1979, Albert Brooks, Dick Haynes, Matthew Tobin, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain) – Classic Movie Review 10,742

The 1979 mockumentary film Real Life is a funny, inventive early comedy from the talented writer-director Albert Brooks, who also plays himself, a loathesome toad of a documentary film-maker recording the lives of an average […]

Jan, 03

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend ** (1985, William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes) – Classic Movie Review 10,656

‘The greatest adventure ever born!’ Director B W L Norton’s 1985 family sci-fi adventure Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend found Walt Disney studios in trouble with a fumbled Eighties King Kong-style adventure with a […]

Dec, 12

Falling in Love Again (1980, Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Classic Movie Review 10,654

Elliott Gould and Susannah York play Harry and Sue Lewis, the present day couple in Falling in Love Again, a shambling 1980 American romantic drama film, with keen young Steven Paul (only 20 at the […]

Dec, 12

Falling in Love *** (1984, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 10,653

Director Ulu Grosbard’s 1984 American romantic drama film Falling in Love stars Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep as Manhattan commuters, Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, both of them married, who have a brief encounter in […]

Dec, 12

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