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The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

Battleground **** (1949, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 6714

Director William Wellman’s important and distinguished, if necessarily grim 1949 iconic war movie won Oscars for its screenplay by Robert Pirosh, who was involved in the actual Battle of the Bulge, and for Paul C […]

Feb, 21

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause * (2006, Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6425

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause follows The Santa Clause (1994) and The Santa Clause 2 (2002) in 2006, completing the trilogy. Tim Allen returns as Scott Calvin, aka Santa, who has to keep his new family […]

Dec, 18

The Man Who Invented Christmas * (2017, Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review

I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]

Dec, 02

Daddy’s Home 2 * (2017, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, John Cena) – Movie Review

If you want to put yourself in a bad mood before Christmas, this is an even better bet than A Bad Moms Christmas. A dismally unfunny, slapstick, sentimental script sinks this wretched seasonal sequel to […]

Nov, 19

The President’s Analyst **** (1967, James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden) – Classic Movie Review 6240

‘The picture dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happenings.’ Writer/ director Theodore J Flicker’s 1967 little gem is a Swinging Sixties modish mix of farce and satire with a trendy James Coburn as […]

Nov, 13

Remember the Night **** (1940, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 5205

‘The BAD girl and the GOOD boy who went to Niagara Falls…before their wedding! ‘ Producer-director Mitchell Leisen’s 1940 romantic comedy drama Remember the Night stars Barbara Stanwyck as Lee Leander, whose shoplifting trial is […]

Mar, 27

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