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Recent Posts Tagged With 'comedy'
Movie Review - Penelope (1966)
Penelope is a 1966 comedy that I'd never heard of and seems pretty obscure, but having watched it I can say with confidence that it's well worth the effort to find. It stars Natalie Wood as Penelope Elcott, the young wife of a banker who's become mo...
Short Review of "To Sir, With Love"
In this movie Sidney Poitier plays a new teacher who inherits the class from hell. He has to somehow manage to keep his cool while moulding a group of outcasts into a class of bright, eager students. This movie is full of wit and humour, a few good s...
Short Review of Waking Ned
Waking Ned is a slightly surreal British comedy about a small village where a man wins the lottery, but the shock kills him. The town's close-knit inhabitants feel that it wouldn't be right for the money to just go to waste, and cook up a scheme to ...
Short Review of "The Green Man"
This Alistair Sim vehicle is a 1956 comedy that, much like Happy Ever After, hsa a few funny moments but jsut never gets out of second gear. Sim is not as funny here as in the St Trinnian movies, but his facial gymnastics can still raise a smile. H...
Short Review of "Happy Ever After"
This 1954 comedy starts David Niven as a young man who's just come into an inheritance. This includes fulfilling the role of his dear departed relative, and it's not long before he's upset the villagers so much that they're plotting to kill him!Thoug...
