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Blind Date **** (1987, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette) – Classic Movie Review 7760

Director Blake Edwards’s delightful and sometimes hilarious 1987 screwball romantic comedy Blind Date stars Bruce Willis as workaholic Walter Davis, who invites his brother Ted (Phil Hartman)’s wife’s cousin Nadia (Kim Basinger), a teetotaller, out […]

Nov, 06

Singapore *** (1947, Fred MacMurray, Ava Gardner, Roland Culver, Richard Haydn, Spring Byington, Thomas Gomez, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 7270

Director John Brahm’s 1947 action, adventure, crime romantic thriller Singapore stars Ava Gardner as gorgeous old flame Linda, now married to stuffy rich planter Michael Van Layden (Roland Culver), who comes back into the life of carefree pearl […]

Jul, 09

Isle of Dogs **** (2018, voices of Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton) – Movie Review

Writer-producer-director Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated comedy feature is a posh quirky treat – witty, clever and consistently amusing. It is rich and strange, but directly appealing, and, with its beautiful animation, quite the smart-looking art object […]

Apr, 01

The Gallant Hours *** (1960, James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 6779

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]

Mar, 08

Across the Pacific **** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet) – Classic Movie Review 6453

The iconic great stars from The Maltese Falcon (1941) – Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet – join up again with their director John Huston for this entertaining but more routine 1942 Second World War […]

Dec, 22

Your Name **** [Kimi no na wa] (2016) – Movie Review

Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai tells the sci-fi infused love story of a teenage boy and girl from different backgrounds who discover they can swap bodies in this haunting, dream-like gender-bending 2016 anime film. Telling a special, […]

Sep, 28

Beachhead **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5491

Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]

May, 24

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