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Arthur 2: On the Rocks ** (1988, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9391
Director Bud Yorkin films an inferior sequel to the 1981 hit Arthur in the 1988 comedy Arthur 2: On the Rocks, with all three stars from the original returning, but not the original writer-director Steve […]
Come Fill the Cup *** (1951, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Gig Young, Raymond Massey, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 9319
James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]
Honey Boy **** (2019, Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs) – Movie Review
More than just a bit uncomfortably, Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own domineering father in Honey Boy (2019), an ex-rodeo clown with a prison record called James Lort, in LaBeouf’s thinly semi-fictionalised story […]
Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9089
A long (it runs 144 minutes), personal film requires you to be in touch with writer-director John Cassavetes’s particular style, but the 1977 drama Opening Night is beautifully done all round, extremely appealing and touching. […]
The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952
Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]
The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895
Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]
The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]