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Closely Observed Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky] **** (1966, Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský) – Classic Movie Review 6930

Co-writer/ director Jirí Menzel won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1968 for his affecting and entertaining 1966 Czechoslovakian satirical comedy Closely Observed Trains about the efforts of an apprentice guard (Václav Neckár) at […]

Apr, 16

Big Bad Mama *** (1974, Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, usan Sennett, Robbie Lee, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 5369

Director Steve Carver’s robust and rumbustious 1974 gangster thriller is a follow-up to 1970’s Roger Corman hit Bloody Mama with Shelley Winters. This time Angie Dickinson, always game for a go at anything, stars as […]

Apr, 30

Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] ** (1996, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Christopher Jones) – Classic Movie Review 4851

After just six movies as a star, and quitting in 1970 after Ryan’s Daughter, Christopher Jones made one final screen appearance in the 1996 American ensemble cast crime comedy Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] written and directed […]

Jan, 06

Rasputin: The Mad Monk *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Renée Asherson, Dinsdale Landen, Suzan Farmer, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2889

Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]

Sep, 07

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

Simon Sez * (1999, Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, John Pinette) – Bad Movie 9

Beware director Kevin Elders’s appallingly weak 1999 action adventure comedy, starring basketball superstar Dennis Rodman as clever-talking Interpol agent simple Simon, who is attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a stereotypical crazed arms dealer. Dane […]

Nov, 29

Poison **** (1991, dir Todd Haynes) – Classic Movie Review 1528

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s remarkable 1991 movie is one of the three cornerstones of the early 90s aggressive New Queer Cinema movement, along with Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992) and Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992). Previously […]

Aug, 09

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