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Artists and Models *** (1955, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 6621

Co-writer director Frank Tashlin’s 1955 comedy vehicle for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is co-written by actor Don McGuire, Lewis’s friend, who also co-wrote the weak Martin and Lewis film Three Ring Circus (1954). The comedy is […]

Jan, 30

The Last of England **** (1987, Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, ‘Spring’ Mark Adley) – Classic Movie Review 6496

Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]

Dec, 30

A Scandal in Paris **** (1946, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 6302

Cult director Douglas Sirk’s intriguing 1946 film stars George Sanders performs with his usual easy elegance in this stylish, twisty and amusing comedy adventure about a notorious real-life 18th/ 19th-century French character called François-Eugène Vidocq. […]

Nov, 24

Strange Bedfellows ** (1965, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 6,129

The pleasant 1965 romantic comedy film Strange Bedfellows re-teams the glamorous and alluring successful star pair of Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida. Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Melvin Frank’s pleasant if only moderate 1965 romantic comedy film […]

Oct, 23

Candyman **** (1992, Virginia Madsen, Kasi Lemmons, Xander Berkeley, DeJuan Guy, Tony Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6,116

Virginia Madsen stars as the spunky heroine Helen Lyle, a postgrad student studying the ancient myth of the Candyman (Tony Todd), a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, in the exciting, full-throttle 1992 […]

Oct, 20

Femme Fatale * (1991, Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6074

Director André R Guttfreund’s weird 1991 drama stars Colin Firth as worried artist / nature park ranger Joseph Prince, whose beautiful bride Cynthia (played by Lisa Zane) disappears on the honeymoon. So he sets out […]

Oct, 10

Van Gogh *** (1991, Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gérard Séty, Bernard Le Coq, Corinne Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein) – Classic Movie Review 6054

A complex, deeply humane portrayal by Alexandra Dutronc brings the troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh to life in writer-director Maurice Pialat’s meticulous and supremely detailed 1992 French historical biopic that places the end of the […]

Oct, 03

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