Review “We’re No Angels” (1955)

This is a little late, but here’s a Christmas movie I will confess I completely forgot about until just recently. “We’re No Angels” stars Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Rey. This movie is a comedy about Christmas, though its humour is often wonderfully black. It is purported to take place in the French penal…

Review “The Comedy of Terrors” (1963)

Vincent Price. Peter Lorre. Boris Karloff. Basil Rathbone. All in one movie. What’s not to love? “The Comedy of Terrors” is a comedy/horror (not sure there’s that much horror in it, really) that is a great deal of fun. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur (‘Cat People’, ‘I walked with a zombie’) and the screenplay…

Review “The Thin Man” (1934)

An oldy but definitely still a goody, “The Thin Man” is based on a Dashiell Hammett novel of the same name. William Powell and Myrna Loy star as Nick and Nora Charles, a detective and his wife who become embroiled in a murder investigation, in this classic mystery/comedy. It has a cast of bizarre characters…