Tag: Film Review

Film Review Vol. 31 No. 2, February 1981

30 June, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Times Square probably hadn’t had its January 15th opening yet when the February issue of Film Review came out. Unlike the article in the previous month’s issue, this isn’t a review at all, but a promotional summary of the film, with the exception of the backhanded compliment that most of

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Film Review, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 1981

27 December, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“With an off-beat beauty all her own, and an engaging rasping singing voice, Ms Johnson has enough female virility to fill many films yet, and is already pencilled in for the sequel to Grease.”   There’s no arguing with the fact that in January of 1981, the big movie in

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Film Review, Vol. 30 No. 10, October 1980

1 February, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“‘I’d sung in a choir when I was 12,’ Robin chirps…”           Assuming that any periodical dated October probably hit the stands in September, here’s a British magazine devoting an entire page to Robin, a month before Times Square’s premiere, and four months before it would

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