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Au-delà des grilles [Le mura di Malapaga] [The Walls of Malapaga] **** (1949, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi) – Classic Movie Review 9673

War-torn Italian slums in Genoa provide a stable background for director René Clément’s moving depiction of a tragic encounter between Pierre Arrignon (Jean Gabin), a French fugitive killer pursued by the law, and a frustrated […]

Apr, 24

Son of Lassie *** (1945, Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce, William Severn, Leon Ames, Fay Helm, Nils Asther, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 4647

Director S Sylvan Simon’s sentimental but pleasing 1945 children’s adventure finds its beating heart in Laddie, the son of Lassie, who joins Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford) as a stowaway in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during […]

Nov, 13

Capture the Flag ***½ (2015, Carme Calvell, Dani Rovira, Michelle Jenner, Javier Balas, Camilo Garcia, Oriol Tarragó) – Movie Review

Now here’s something tasty and a bit different – a 3D animated adventure comedy about landing on the Moon, then and now. It’s got an involving proper story to tell – it isn’t just a string of […]

Jan, 13

A Night at the Opera ***** (1935, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle) – Classic Movie Review 3061

Otis B Driftwood: ‘It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.’ Fiorello: ‘You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Santay Claus!’ Director Sam Wood’s hilarious 1935 Marx Brothers comedy […]

Nov, 14

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan ** (1989, Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott ) – Classic Movie Review 1817

Friday the 13th Part VIII is a typically bloody and repetitious stalk and slash horror movie, in which stowaway hockey masked serial killer Jason Voorhees (again played by Kane Hodder) systematically tries to murder an entire graduating […]

Nov, 07

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