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An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn ** (2018, Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Matt Berry) – Movie Review

Hooray for another memorably awful movie from British film director Jim Hosking, whose first feature film The Greasy Strangler premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2016. Desperate, tacky, and body fascist and vaguely […]

May, 31 · in Reviews

Night Shift *** (1982, Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long) – Classic Movie Review 7107

Director Ron Howard’s frantic 1982 comedy Night Shift stars Henry Winkler as Chuck Lumley, who takes a job as an attendant in a macabre morgue and gets mixed up with crazy, obnoxious partner Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), […]

May, 31 · in Reviews

The Night of the Grizzly *** (1966, Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Kulp, Leo Gordon, Kevin Brodie, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Ron Ely) – Classic Movie Review 7106

The peace-loving residents of Wyoming are threatened by a vicious rogue grizzly bear and other equally unattractive bad guys in director Joseph Pevney’s picturesque, cuddly and cosy 1966 Old West adventure The Night of the […]

May, 31

Never Goin’ Back *** (2018, Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone, Kyle Mooney) – Movie Review

Never Goin’ Back sets itself up to be the female Dude, Where’s My Car?. But don’t get too excited. Okay, then, get a little bit excited. Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone play high school dropout best friends […]

May, 30

The White Buffalo *** (1977, Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7105

Director J Lee Thompson’s intriguingly bizarre 1977 symbolic Western The White Buffalo stars Charles Bronson in one of his better roles as the haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok, who is stalking a murderous white buffalo […]

May, 30

The Breadwinner ***** (2017, voices of Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus) – Movie Review

The Breadwinner (2017) is a beautifully drawn, unusually involving, eye-opener animation from Nora Twomey, co-director of The Secret of Kells (2009) and head of story for Song of the Sea (2014). It is story based. It […]

May, 28

The Book of Life ** (1998, Martin Donovan, P J Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 7104

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s weird, serious-minded 1998 fantasy comedy satire The Book of Life is a self-styled controversial retelling of the Apocalypse. Martin Donovan stars as Jesus Christ, who arrives in New York on millennium eve […]

May, 28

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