The 1936 British musical film It’s Love Again is a splendid vehicle for the effervescent Jessie Matthews as an ambitious chorus girl masquerading as a rich big-game hunter to boost her showbiz career. Director Victor […]
Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1938 British black and white slapstick comedy It’s in the Air [George Takes the Air] stars George Formby as George Brown, the disaster-struck, motorbike-crazed rookie who joins the RAF as a message […]
Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]
An untrained Rugby Sevens team, boosted by the alluring Hazel Scott (played by Samantha Janus, aka Samantha Womack), have to get in shape to try to defeat the The Cobblers Arms reigning champions and win […]
‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]
Ah, yes, with Albert Einstein as Cupid what could possibly go wrong? Director Fred Schepisi’s 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q. stars Tim Robbins as garage mechanic Ed Walters, who tries to romance mathematician Catherine Boyd, […]
Diane Keaton directs and stars in the well-cast, weepie 2000 family comedy drama Hanging Up about a trio of attractive self-absorbed middle-aged sisters (Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow), who are forced to forget their differences […]