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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

A Perfect World *** (1993, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T J Lowther) – Classic Movie Review 9260

Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World (1993) is well made and decently paced as a crime thriller entertainment, though it is not as exciting or evocative as the similar Hunted (1952), Badlands, The Sugarland Express […]

Jan, 14

Trade Winds *** (1938, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Thomas Mitchell, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 9253

Director Tay Garnett’s 1938 comedy murder mystery Trade Winds stars Fredric March as hard-bitten former detective investigator Sam Wye, who is sent to head off to the Orient by Police Commissioner Blackton (Thomas Mitchell) to […]

Jan, 11

Pardon Mon Affaire [Un Eléphant Ça Trompe Énormément] *** (1976, Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme, Anny Duperey) – Classic Movie Review 9228

Co-writer/ director Yves Robert’s 1976 comedy Pardon Mon Affaire [Un Eléphant Ça Trompe Énormément] is the French original of Gene Wilder’s 1984 American hit The Woman in Red. It shows the efforts of Étienne (Jean […]

Jan, 05

Jojo Rabbit *** (2019, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell) – Movie Review

Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) is a bold but awkward, uneasy World War Two Germany surreal satirical comedy, with its major plus points in the performances of Roman Griffin Davis as troubled, lonely 10-year-old […]

Jan, 03

Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1929, Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston) – Classic Movie Review 9212

Director Reginald Barker’s 1929 RKO Radio Pictures mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the rudimentary, halting fourth (and first sound) version of nine movies of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a writer (played […]

Jan, 01

Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1935, Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 9211

Directors William Hamilton and Edward Killy’s 1935 mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the fifth of nine versions of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a mystery writer, William Magee (played by Gene […]

Jan, 01

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