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Blind Date **** (1987, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette) – Classic Movie Review 7760

Director Blake Edwards’s delightful and sometimes hilarious 1987 screwball romantic comedy Blind Date stars Bruce Willis as workaholic Walter Davis, who invites his brother Ted (Phil Hartman)’s wife’s cousin Nadia (Kim Basinger), a teetotaller, out […]

Nov, 06

Searching **** (2018, John Cho, Debra Messing, Michelle La, Joseph Lee) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Aneesh Chaganty’s 2018 mystery thriller Searching is gimmicky – but a success! He pulls off the trick of having the entire movie unfold on a computer with considerable flair and style, retaining mystery […]

Sep, 01

Burglar * (1987, Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G W Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 7444

Director Hugh Wilson’s 1987 Burglar wastes Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice ‘Bernie’ Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar and bookstore owner, wanted for a murder that she has only witnessed. The dead body is found in a house […]

Aug, 15

Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review

Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]

Jul, 04

Frida *** (2002, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Roger Rees, Diego Luna) – Classic Movie Review 7195

Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]

Jun, 19

Breaking In * (2018, Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral) – Movie Review

Gabrielle Union stars in director James McTeigue’s strained and implausible thriller Breaking In (2018) as Shaun Russell, who turns up at the great home her father has just left her, along with her two kids Jasmine and Justin […]

May, 18

Goodbye Charlie *** (1964, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 6929

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1964 fantasy romantic comedy Goodbye Charlie is an attractively cast and well-played version of George Axelrod’s 1959 Broadway play about a jealous husband (Walter Matthau) murdering a philanderer, a lecherous Hollywood writer named […]

Apr, 16

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