Thursday, June 12, 2025

Classic Reviews

Classic Film Review: ‘Fame’ Needed That Norman Jewison Touch

Director: Alan Parker Writers: Christopher Gore Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi Synopsis: Young men and women audition for coveted spots at the New York High School of Performing Arts....

Classic Movie Review: A Look at ‘Fargo’ 25 Years Later

It’s been 25 years since Joel and Ethan Coen, in their smorgasbord of dark-comedy delight, released one of their masterpieces: Fargo. Their early career was filled with key films like Bloody Simple,...

Classic Film Review: ‘In the Mood for Love’ Is Intellectually Challenging

This is one of those situations where I find myself just loving a film, even though I know that I’m meant to absolutely lose my head over it. Critics and friends had...

Classic Film Review: After 45 years, ‘The Bad News Bears’ is still one of the scrappiest underdog films

This week saw the return of major league baseball for the 2021 season. In recent years, I’ve found that I like to indulge in my fandom by not only watching games, but...

Classic Film Review: ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ Was Too Muted For My Taste

Has anybody ever met one of the blonde ice queens who seem to populate every film ever made by a sexually frustrated auteur? They seem to exist as figments of their imagination....

Classic Movie Review: ‘Hud’ – A Cowboy Catharsis

Paul Newman is the titular star of frequent collaborator and Best Director nominee Martin Ritt's (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) Hud, a bleak contemporary western based on the novel...

Classic Film Review: ‘Road to Morocco’ Conforms to the Racist Tropes of its Genre

The Road to… series probably wouldn’t be massively successful today because all of the entries in the series feel similar to television sitcoms. They’re all fairly short, feature the same cast of...

Classic Film Review: ‘Short Cuts’ is an Enlightening Exploration of Loneliness

I approached Short Cuts (1993) with unbridled excitement and high expectations. It did not let me down. So much of the motifs in the film will be familiar to fans of Robert Altman....

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