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Black Panther **** (2018, Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 8171

Bohemian Rhapsody proved to be the big winner of Oscar night 2019, taking home four awards, but then Black Panther, Roma and Green Book all took home three Oscars. Black Panther won for Best Achievement […]

Feb, 26

Howard the Duck [Howard: A New Breed of Hero] * (1986, Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 7853

Writer-director Willard Huyck’s 1986 comedy Howard the Duck [aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero] is a big bucks mega-flop (known affectionately as Howard the Turkey) from producers George Lucas and co-writer Gloria Katz, who […]

Nov, 29

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse **** (2018, voices Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Kimiko Glenn, John Mulaney, Liev Schreiber, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review

The live-action Marvel movies have become so CGI dependent that the studio has finally done the logical thing and gone the whole hog and dispensed with actors and sets altogether, and turned them into an […]

Nov, 29

Ant-Man and the Wasp ** (2018, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Michael Douglas, Walton Goggins, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Movie Review

Peyton Reed follows up his Ant-Man (2015) with Ant-Man and the Wasp, which is pretty much the same as the first one and again is okay as a throwaway popcorn movie. It is fast-paced and amiable, with […]

Jul, 19

Deadpool 2 **** (2018, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz) – Movie Review

Deadpool 2 is two outrageously cynical hours of non-stop bad-ass bad taste laughs and extreme comic-book violence as Ryan Reynolds returns as the foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool of course). It is quite a […]

May, 15

Logan **** (2017, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E Grant) – Movie Review

Death is everywhere in co-writer/ director James Mangold’s dark and dangerous R-rated movie follow-up to The Wolverine (2013), with Hugh Jackman back for what he has named his final turn as Logan. So the Logan movie is not […]

Feb, 22

Doctor Strange ***½ (2016, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review

There are only half a dozen main characters in Doctor Strange, which means we get to see an awful lot of them. This means rather too much of Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, which he plays exactly like […]

Oct, 25

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