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The Unsinkable Molly Brown *** (1964, Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 10,467

‘Can a girl find happiness with $20,000,000? YOU BET!’ Director Charles Walters’s 1964 Broadway show transfer The Unsinkable Molly Brown boasts Debbie Reynolds full of beans as the real-life mining-camp tomboy Molly Brown, who climbs […]

Oct, 27

On Moonlight Bay *** (1951, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Jack Smith, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 7680

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 On Moonlight Bay pairs cute, clean-cut couple Doris Day and Gordon MacRae to rousing, tuneful effect. Day stars as toothsome tomboy Marjorie Winfield and MacRae plays her handsome neighbour William […]

Oct, 20

Old Heidelberg **** (1927, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 6883

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 Viennese fairy tale romantic movie is one of the great silent film classics. It stars Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro. Lubitsch’s beautifully realised bitter-sweet love story is the tale of Austrian crown […]

Apr, 03

Dunston Checks In *** (1996, Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 3869

Director Ken Kwapis’s daft 1996 family adventure comedy stars Jason Alexander as luxurious Majestic Hotel manager Robert Grant, who can handle anything – until thieving orangutan Dunston checks in. Rupert Everett is classy as the […]

Jun, 15

High-Rise ** (2015, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy) – Movie Review

Director Ben Wheatley’s ambitious but excruciating satire is on the one hand an admirable British art film but on the other hand incredibly hard to sit through. One hour is quite enough, thank you. A handful […]

Apr, 01

Cake ***½ (2014, Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington) – Movie Review

Jennifer Aniston can’t really win. Whenever she plays comedy or romcom which she’s so good at, everyone says she’s just coasting, still doing her schlep as Rachel in Friends. And if she does a serious […]

Feb, 19

Down to You ** (2000, Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair) – Classic Movie Review 1758

Writer-director Kris Isacsson’s 2000 effort is a sweet, light-weight, warm-hearted romantic comedy and relationship movie in which a nice, sympathetic guy wins and loses his first serious love of his life. Freddie Prinze Jr stars as Al Connelly, […]

Oct, 11

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