MGM remakes their 1938 movie The Great Waltz about Johann Strauss Jr in 1972, this time starring Horst Buchholz as the composer. Romantic and old-fashioned, it was the last film in Cinerama. Director Andrew L […]
Walt Disney’s fun 1986 family animation adventure The Great Mouse Detective is a rodent reworking of the Sherlock Holmes stories, inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, who remains uncredited. The main characters are […]
‘The wildlife is wild, but his brother-in-law is unbearable.’ Director Howard Deutch’s amiable but slack 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors at least starts with the benefit of a strong, game star cast of Dan Aykroyd, […]
Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]
Director Freddie Francis’s twisted, sick 1970 British horror movie Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly [aka Girly] is The Addams Family without the laughs. It is an appalling, shockingly inept shocker about two crazy teens, Sonny […]
Producer-director William A Wellman’s 1941 The Great Man’s Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as a centenarian pioneer woman called Hannah Sempler Hoyt, who looks back over her life as the wife of pioneer Ethan Hoyt (Joel […]
Director Jim Henson’s Muppets again feature in the 1981 The Great Muppet Caper, a much-improved sequel to the 1979 first caper The Muppet Movie, with a amiable selection of largely British performers, raising reliable laughs. […]
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