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Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] **** (1973, Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy) – Classic Movie Review 11,174

The 1973 Indian film Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] is director Satyajit Ray’s moving look at the horrifying effects of the Bengali famine in 1943, viewed in microcosm through the lives of a warm-hearted doctor-teacher Gangacharan […]

May, 06

The Falls *** (1980, Colin Cantlie, Hilarie Thompson, Sheila Canfield, Adam Leys, Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray) – Classic Movie Review 10,651

Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]

Dec, 11

Kursk: The Last Mission [The Command] *** (2018, Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow) – Movie Review

Director Thomas Vinterberg’s sterling, well-told, convincing, compelling film version of the true-life tragic story of the 2000 Russian K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is a worthwhile, immersive but challenging and harrowing experience. Kursk: The Last Mission […]

Jul, 14

Skyjacked *** (1972, Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Dey) – Classic Movie Review 8241

Director John Guillermin bids you welcome to captain Charlton Heston’s Boeing 707 supposedly bound for Minneapolis but unfortunately for the passengers it is hijacked by a crazed Vietnam vet bomber, who demands to be taken […]

Mar, 13

The Big Bus **** (1976, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman) – Classic Movie Review 8172

All aboard the ultimately luxurious coach for director James Frawley’s 1976 The Big Bus, a hilarious parody of Seventies disaster movies in which drivers Dan Torrance and Shoulders (played by Joseph Bologna and John Beck) […]

Feb, 26

The Hurricane **** (1937, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 5,741

A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]

Jul, 10

The Rains Came **** (1939, Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 5,202

The 1939 romantic adventure film The Rains Came stars Tyrone Power as an Indian nobleman, trained as a doctor in America, who returns to India, where he dallies with English married woman (Myrna Loy). It […]

Mar, 26

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