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Herbie Goes Bananas! ** (1980, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos, Harvey Korman, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld) – Classic Movie Review 7870

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas! is the fourth and final part of Walt Disney Productions’ original Volkswagen Beetle Herbie saga that began in 1968 with The Love Bug. Cloris Leachman star as Aunt Louise, […]

Dec, 02

The Bullfighters *** (1945, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Margo Woode, Richard Lane, Carol Andrews, Diosa Costello, Ralph Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 7447

Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1945 comedy The Bullfighters teams Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy for their last American film together, in which they star as American private detectives in Mexico City on the trail of […]

Aug, 16

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Everybody Wins ** (1990, Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 6633

Director Karel Reisz’s 1990 thriller Everybody Wins stars Nick Nolte as a private eye who is called to a peaceful New England town by a quirky, beguiling, perhaps unstable hooker (Debra Winger) to prove a […]

Feb, 01

Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] **** (1950, Lucia Bosé, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 6282

Michelangelo Antonioni’s hugely promising and satisfying 1950 romantic crime drama Cronaca di un amore [Story of a Love Affair] is his first full-length feature film, after making highly regarded documentaries, and stars Massimo Girotti (as […]

Nov, 22

After the Storm [Umi yori mo mada fukaku] **** (2016, Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s sweet and tender Japanese slice-of-life family relationships drama is a quiet, subtle little gem, slow burning, smouldering, but brightly burning. Gentle, kind, wise and forgiving, this effortlessly achieved humanist film gains its power […]

Jun, 29

For a Cop’s Hide [Pour La Peau d’un Flic] ** (1981, Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Michel Auclair, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Mireille Darc) – Classic Movie Review 5555

Alain Delon himself co-writes and directs the popular 1981 French crime-thriller For a Cop’s Hide [Pour La Peau d’un Flic], which goes well for while, with plenty of intrigue, but starts to unravel way before […]

Jun, 05

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