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The Hundred-Foot Journey *** (2014, Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Director Lasse Hallström’s 2014 culture clash foodie movie may be a bit slack, bland and complacent but it is still quite diverting and pretty enjoyable. Its main attraction is that it is starring national treasure Helen […]

Sep, 04

Carry On: Don’t Lose Your Head *** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, Peter Butterworth, Peter Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 1128

‘Carry On laughing until you have hysterics, but… Don’t Lose Your Head!’ The 1967 British comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head is the 13th in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992), and features […]

Apr, 21

The Love Punch *** (2013, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review

A reasonably likeable, totally watchable 2013 Britcom sitcom is on the menu as Emma Thompson stars as a brisk and capable middle-class English woman called Kate, who is happily divorced from her cheating lawyer ex-husband […]

Apr, 17

Shoulder Arms (1918, Charles Chaplin) – Classic Film Review 1055

Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1918 silent comedy is another one of his masterpieces. At 46 minutes, it is his shortest feature film. Originally planned at five reels, it was edited down and outtakes were preserved in Chaplin’s […]

Apr, 05

The Man in the Iron Mask *** (1998, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud) – Classic Movie Review 1035

Writer-director Randall Wallace (also the writer of Braveheart) directs a lusty, zesty 1998 version of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, first filmed in 1929 by Douglas Fairbanks Sr as The Iron Mask, and again as […]

Apr, 01

The Man in the Iron Mask ***** (1939, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 1034

Director James Whale’s 1939 black and white adventure classic The Man in the Iron Mask is an exuberantly spirited display of swashbuckling, which helps light up this thoroughly enjoyable, lustily entertaining Three Musketeers tale. It […]

Apr, 01

Chocolat *** (2000, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne Moss, John Wood, Leslie Caron) – Classic Movie Review 935

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s sweet 2000 heart-warming wallow easily entertains the romantically inclined but he overeggs the soufflé with a miscalculated charm attack. Oscar-nominated Juliette Binoche is a very tasty morsel as Vianne Rocher, a free-spirited confectioner […]

Mar, 18

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