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Waiting for the Barbarians **** (2019, Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson) – Movie Review

Mark Rylance is tremendous in a low-key, bright-burning performance as The Magistrate ruling benignly over an empire’s distant outpost, who is confronted by the arrival of evil torturing policeman Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), in director Ciro […]

Sep, 16

Alexander the Great *** (1956, Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Stanley Baker, Peter Wyngarde) – Classic Movie Review 6585

Writer-producer-director Robert Rossen’s Spanish-filmed 1956 historical epic of Alexander the Great [Alexander III of Macedon] (356-323 BC) is a clever and thoughtful movie. The young Richard Burton proves a good choice as the Greek warrior […]

Jan, 20

The Assam Garden **** (1985, Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alex McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Iain Cuthbertson Anton Lesser, Ronald Russell) – Classic Movie Review 6164

Director Mary McMurray’s tender and poignant 1985 drama brings back Deborah Kerr to the cinema after a 16-year layoff (since The Arrangement in 1969) as Englishwoman Helen, an ex-Raj widow who returns to England and the […]

Oct, 31

Dungeons and Dragons ** (2000, Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch, Marlon Wayans, Bruce Payne, Justin Whalin) – Classic Movie Review 5694

Jeremy Irons overacts embarrassingly in producer-director Courtney Solomon’s only very moderate 2000 sword-and-sorcery fantasy action adventure, further held back with disappointing cheap-looking effects. Irons plays the tyrannical magician Profion, who plots to overthrow Empress Savina […]

Jul, 02

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ***** (1983, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Film Review 214

With a three-year gap after Irvin Kershner’s 1980 The Empire Strikes Back, co-writer/producer George Lucas delivers the third and final part of his original Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi […]

Sep, 02

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ***** (1977, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse) – Classic Movie Review 210

‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ ‘May the Force be with you.’ Star Wars blew like a breath of fresh air across cinema screens in 1977. Audiences were blown away being […]

Sep, 01

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