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Tommy Boy ½ (1995, Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy, Dan Aykroyd, Julie Warner, Rob Lowe, Bo Derek) – Classic Movie Review 4553
Saturday Night Live players Chris Farley and David Spade team up for director Peter Segal’s unbearable, utterly moronic, slapstick 1995 American teen comedy with a soft head and an equally soft heart that needs to […]
The Twelve Chairs ***½ (1970, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Diana Coupland, David Lander, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 4133
Writer-director Mel Brooks’s engaging 1970 movie version of the much filmed 1920s classic Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov is sleek, witty and amusing. Ron Moody stars as […]
Zootropolis [Zootopia] **** (2016, voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J K Simmons, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spencer, Jenny Slate, Shakira) – Movie Review
Set in Zootopia, a city full of characterful anthropomorphic animals, Disney’s 2016 blockbuster animated comedy is good-hearted and funny. It’s busy, fast paced, inventive and above all loads of fun, both for kids and grown-ups. […]
The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] *** (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187
The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]
The Lady Eve ***** (1941, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2603
‘You see, Hopsie, you don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad.’ Writer-director Preston Sturges’s brilliant 1941 screwball […]
Body Heat ***** (1981, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2387
‘When it gets hot, people start to kill each other.’ Writer/ debut director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1981 neo film noir Body Heat stars Kathleen Turner, who is thrilling in her movie début as a sexy socialite […]
Criminal *** (2000, John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 1577
Despite the decent, quirky acting of the good cast, co-writer/co-producer/director Gregory Jacobs’s 2004 movie is a slightly disappointing if adequately twisty and entertaining American remake version of the much better 2000 Argentinian crime caper thriller […]