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El Topo *** (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta) – Classic Movie Review 9843

‘The definitive cult spaghetti Western.’ ‘The legendary cult classic.’ ‘The film that shocked America with its sex and violence.’ Writer-director Alejandro Jodorowsky [Alexandro Jodorowsky]’s peculiar, surreal, heavily allegory-laden 1970 Mexican spaghetti Western film El Topo […]

May, 30

Chamber of Horrors *** (1966, Patrick O’Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker) – Classic Movie Review 5796

The lurid 1966 period black comedy horror Chamber of Horrors was made for TV but then considered too gruesome for the home audience of the day. Director Hy Averback’s lurid, tongue-in-cheek 1966 period black comedy […]

Jul, 22

In the Soup **** (1992, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Beals, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 5788

Co-writer/ director Alexandre Rockwell’s stylish, clever and appealingly idiosyncratic 1992 low-budget film is beautifully shot by Phil Parmet in black and white, with a funny script by Rockwell and Tim Kissell, and superb comic performances, […]

Jul, 18

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes **** (1970, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Clive Revill, Geneviève Page) – Classic Movie Review 2487

Director Billy Wilder is on great form in his revisionist 1970 British-made tale of the private life of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sleuth, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely […]

May, 16

Freaks ***** (1932, Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Henry Victor) – Classic Movie Review 2462

‘Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.’ MGM production supervisor Irving Thalberg, a man of discernment who produced immaculately tasteful films like Romeo and Juliet, ordered something that ‘out-horrors Frankenstein’. And director […]

May, 08

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