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The Dinner **** (2017, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny) – Movie Review

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall are. And it all because their teenage sons, Charlie Plummer, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick and Miles J Harvey, have got into quite a spot of bother. Coogan […]

Dec, 08

Dinner at Eight ***** (1933, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, May Robson, Jean Hersholt, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6300

MGM lavishly throw in many of their big Thirties stars for director George Cukor’s sparkling 1933 comedy about the backstabbing in New York society as hostess Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) holds a posh dinner party for […]

Nov, 24

The Lovers [Les Amants] **** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cluny, Jean-Marc Bory) – Classic Movie Review 5229

The 25-year-old co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1958 second feature is a deliciously lyrical love story that caused huge controversy and confirmed the rising reputations of the French director and his star Jeanne Moreau, previously established […]

Apr, 01

The Exterminating Angel [El Angel Exterminador] **** (1962, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal) – Classic Movie Review 4883

Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel starts his glittering series of onslaughts on the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie with this tantalising 1962 Surrealist black comedy. There is perhaps a little too much obvious calculation in the […]

Jan, 12

Dinner for Schmucks * (2010, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement, Lucy Punch, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams, Ron Livingston) – Classic Movie Review 4616

A set of ill-judged performances ruins director Jay Roach’s all-too-broad, vaguely offensive 2010 comedy, with the main star Steve Carell’s awkward turn as a dumb schmuck being especially embarrassing, though the more appealing Paul Rudd […]

Nov, 08

From Paris with Love * (2010, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak) – Classic Movie Review 3838

From Paris with Love is a disgracefully bad, utterly risible (but not in a good way) action comedy with a totally mismatched star team in John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, neither of whom should […]

Jun, 11

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner **** (1967, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton) – Classic Movie Review 3421

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s 1967 old-fashioned drawing room comedy drama is impeccably liberal minded and well meaning but it stirred up controversy by standing accused of patronising African Americans. Good hearted as it is, it was […]

Feb, 27

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