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Morons from Outer Space (1985, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen, James B Sikking) – Classic Movie Review 8828

Eighties TV’s normally funny men Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones write and star in director Mike Hodges’s moronic 1985 big-screen comedy space adventure Morons from Outer Space, which combines lowbrow British humour and daffy […]

Aug, 14

Morning Departure [Operation Disaster] **** (1950, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, Lana Morris, Peter Hammond, Helen Cherry, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 8749

The British stalwart reserve and resolve in a crisis is examined in force in director Roy Ward Baker’s intense British classic 1950 real-life submarine naval drama Morning Departure [Operation Disaster]. John Mills stars as Lieutenant […]

Jul, 23

Redcon-1 *** (2018, Oris Erhuero, Carlos Gallardo, Mark Strange) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Chee Keong Cheung’s low-budget British zombie apocalypse movie Redcon-1 (2018) revisits the 28 Days Later territory to considerable advantage. It has its rough edges but it is fast paced, action packed, entertaining and […]

Feb, 25

The Girl He Left Behind ***(1956, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Henry Jones, Murray Hamilton, Alan King, James Garner, David Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 8131

Director David Butler’s 1956 The Girl He Left Behind is an over-familiar but pleasant and mildly amusing Fifties services comedy drama, with Tab Hunter as college student Andy Shaeffer, a military draftee knocked into shape […]

Feb, 14

Python * (2000, Casper Van Dien, Robert Englund, Wil Wheaton, Jenny McCarthy, Frayne Rosanoff) – Classic Movie Review 8098

Director Richard Clabaugh’s 2000 film Python is a really atrocious horror movie, wasting Casper Van Dien (as Bart Parker), Robert Englund (as Dr Anton Rudolph) and Wil Wheaton (as Tommy), with a laughable script by […]

Feb, 05

Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941

Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]

Dec, 23

The West Point Story *** (1950, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7177

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1950 musical comedy The West Point Story stars James Cagney eight years after his last musical Yankee Doodle Dandy as gambler Bill Bixby, an on-the-skids Broadway theatre director who produces a […]

Jun, 16

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