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DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214

Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]

Feb, 25

Fury **** (2014, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman) – Movie Review

Brad Pitt stars as battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy, who commands a Sherman tank called Fury and her five-man crew. They set out on a do-or-die mission to wipe out as many German SS […]

Oct, 22

Sweet November *** (2001, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs) – Classic Movie Review 1573

Director Pat O’Connor’s 2001 movie tearfest Sweet November is an unexpected but welcome noughties updated remake of a long-forgotten 1968 romantic weepie, Sweet November. Keanu Reeves stars as Nelson Moss, a San Francisco workaholic executive […]

Aug, 21

Windtalkers *** (Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach) – Classic Film Review 1218

US sergeants Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater are assigned to protect Navajo marines (Adam Beach, Roger Willie) using their native speech as an undecypherable radio code while fighting the Japanese in Saipan in 1943. Cage […]

May, 15

Event Horizon ***½ (1997, Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 1173

Script problems and an unnecessarily nasty tone do some structural damage to director Paul (Mortal Kombat) Anderson’s eerily spooky 1997 science-fiction chiller, in which a rescue ship sets off to find the title deep-space research […]

May, 04

Soldier **** (1998, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Jason Isaacs, Michael Chiklis, Gary Busey, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 1174

Director Paul W S Anderson’s superior and intelligent 1998 futuristic sci-fi action movie stars Kurt Russell as Todd 3465, a cyborg sergeant whose superiors dump him on a desolate planet, convinced that he is dead. But […]

May, 03

The Patriot **** (2000, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 1139

In director Roland Emmerich’s grand, glossy, epic-scale 2000 American War of Independence adventure drama, Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a peace-loving American reluctantly swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. It’s shamefully unhistorical, […]

Apr, 23

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