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- John and Julie *** (1955, Colin Gibson, Leslie Dudley, Moira Lister, Noelle Middelton, Constance Cummings, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sidney James, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 12,880
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Posts Tagged "black comedy"
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The Killer Elite *** (1975, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Gig Young, Bo Hopkins, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 8405
The 1975 action crime thriller The Killer Elite is a good, but not great, Sam Peckinpah action movie with a touch of the then in-vogue Seventies kung fu. The cast and director put it over […]
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg **** (1972, Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 7977
Director Peter Medak’s 1972 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a distinguished, heartbreaking film of Peter Nichols’s stage black comedy about a married couple trying to come to terms with their helplessly disabled […]
Fierce Creatures ** (1997, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin) – Classic Movie Review 7699
The stars of the 1988 comedy triumph A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin, return for another amiable, though much less amusing farcical black comedy, directors Robert Young and […]
Kalifornia *** (1993, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7513
Director Dominic Sena’s nasty and upsetting 1993 psycho-thriller movie Kalifornia is hopefully the last word on serial killers. Clever though it may be, it is a thoroughly dislikeable and unpleasant piece of work. It turned out, […]
The Freshman **** (1990, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian Schell, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 7211
Writer/ producer/ director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 black comedy The Freshman brings Marlon Brando back to a main role on the screen after a decade away to play Carmine ‘Jimmy the Toucan’ Sabatini, a Mafia Godfather who […]
The Unbelievable Truth **** (1989, Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke) – Classic Movie Review 7098
Delightfully oddball characters, situations and dialogue are orchestrated endearingly by writer-director Hal Hartley in his auspicious 1989 début film The Unbelievable Truth. It is a rewarding, darkly satirical comedy of American small-town life about paroled […]
Jinxed! ** (1982, Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 6786
Bette Midler’s 1982 black comedy Jinxed! was certainly jinxed. It was supposed to be a classy hit what with director Don Siegel, cinematographer Vlimos Zsigmond and writers Frank D Gilroy and David Newman – all […]