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- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
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The Proposal *** (2009, Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Denis O’Hare, Craig T Nelson, Betty White) – Classic Movie Review 3833
It’s a stretch to believe in Sandra Bullock as a bitchy, pushy, control-freak boss – but that’s what she’s playing in director Anne Fletcher’s otherwise typical 2009 Sandra romcom. That is so obviously the fake Sandra that […]
The Flying Saucer * (1950, Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Virginia Hewitt) – Classic Movie Review 3759
‘Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! ‘ In 1950, only a year after the world’s first Flying Saucer was supposedly sighted in the Washington hills, writer-producer-director Mikel Conrad came up with […]
Pepi, Luci, Bom [Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón] ** (1980, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska, Félix Rotaeta) – Classic Movie Review 3571
Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 1980 first feature film, arriving belatedly in Britain in 1992 on the back of his later hits, looks at life in Madrid during the punk era. It centres on […]
Mystery, Alaska *** (1999, Rusell Crowe, Burt Reynolds, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 1656
Director Jay Roach’s good-natured 1999 comedy focuses, surprisingly enough, on the little-known remote small US town of Mystery, Alaska, which is obsessed with hockey. And it goes haywire when its amateur team agrees to take […]
Alaska *** (1996, Charlton Heston, Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1655
Director Fraser Clarke Heston’s admirable 1996 children’s outdoor adventure stars Thora Birch and Vincent Kartheiser as two nice kids, Jesse and Sean Barnes, who are stranded in Alaska’s snowy mountain-scapes. With the authorities dithering, […]
The Gold Rush ***** (1925, Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray) – Classic Movie Review 1052
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1925 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. Chaplin said it was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. It was the highest grossing silent comedy and the fifth […]
Insomnia **** (2002, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank) – Classic Movie Review 472
Director Christopher Nolan’s 2002 movie is a distinguished, creepy remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller Insomnia that starred Stellan Skarsgård. This time it is Al Pacino’s turn to look tired. That’s because he hasn’t had […]