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Good Boys * (2019, Jacob Tremblay, Keith L Williams, Brady Noon, Will Forte) – Movie Review

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg’s 2019 comedy Good Boys exploits young actors Jacob Tremblay (as Max), Keith L Williams (as Lucas) and Brady Noon (as Thor), who are way too young to be involved in […]

Aug, 17

Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]

May, 09

The Boys *** (1962, Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) – Classic Movie Review 7581

Director Sidney J Furie’s inventive direction and some then fresh faces (Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) are the main pleasures of the interesting youth-oriented 1962 British courtroom drama The Boys, which was […]

Sep, 16

We Are the Lambeth Boys **** (1959, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 6638

Karel Reisz’s classic 1959 British ‘Free Cinema’ documentary film looks at the lives of boys in a South London youth club, with revealing glances at their humdrum work lives. There is an amusing and telling […]

Feb, 01

La guerre des boutons [War of the Buttons] *** (1962, André Treton, Michel Isella, Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru) – Classic Movie Review 6464

Boys from rival French villages wage war on each other, led by André Treton and Michel Isella, cutting off their prisoner’s buttons and belts. Director Yves Robert’s 1962 French film is an engagingly acted comedy […]

Dec, 24

Where the Boys Are *** (1960, Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols, Connie Francis, George Hamilton, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 6235

Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux, Barbara Nichols and Connie Francis head for Florida’s Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break at Easter, where they find that the boys, including George Hamilton and Jim Hutton, are gorgeous. […]

Nov, 12

Little Men **** (2016, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Alfred Molina, Talia Balsam) – Movie Review

Ira Sachs’s 2016 family drama Little Men is a very sweet and also very sad movie, beautifully acted, wisely written and nicely realised. Greg Kinnear does wonders to light up a none-too-sympathetic role as the weak-willed, […]

Oct, 21

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