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Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]
Director Amy Heckerling’s 1984 comedy Johnny Dangerously stars Michael Keaton, who leads an amiable cast in a Thirties gangster spoof that falls slightly short of the target but still is amusing a lot of the […]
Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1934 black and white Paramount Pictures romantic drama Bolero stars George Raft, who sparkles as a big-headed nightclub dancer, Raoul De Baere, who throws away his chance at love in favour of […]
Director James Parrott’s 1928 two-reeler Their Purple Moment is a generally funny Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy short comedy silent film, with several hilarious high spots, particularly the chaos in the restaurant when the duo try to get […]
Director Michael Curtiz assembles a fine cast for his minor 1955 film noir The Scarlet Hour, but the cast is largely wasted on the fairly turgid story of an adulterous wife (Carol Ohmart) and her […]
Director Mark Sandrich’s rather feebly written 1944 wartime patriotic musical Here Come the Waves is rescued by exuberant stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and by one great new song – Harold Arlen (music) and […]
Director Theodore Reed’s 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy musical Double or Nothing re-teams Bing Crosby and Mary Carlisle after College Humor (1933), and also stars Martha Raye, Andy Devine, William Frawley and Benny Baker. […]