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Wing Commander ** (1999, Freddie Prinz Jr, Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow, David Suchet, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 12,221

Freddie Prinze Jr recalled: ‘I can’t stand Wing Commander. I can’t watch one scene of that movie. I went on location and they said “Here’s the new script”. It was a piece of crap.’  Chalk […]

Jul, 06

The Predator * (2018, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Keegan-Michael Key) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Shane Black’s The Predator is just no good, telling a plodding, uninvolving new story boringly set in the streets of small-town suburbia, with uninteresting, underdeveloped characters, a motley crew of unfascinating actors, sadistic violence, […]

Sep, 15

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt *** (1939, Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth) – Classic Movie Review 6844

Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]

Mar, 22

The Lone Wolf in Paris ** (1938, Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten) – Classic Movie Review 6843

Francis Lederer signs up as The Lone Wolf for one episode only, taking over from Melvyn Douglas in the sequel to The Lone Wolf Returns (1935). Frances Drake co-stars as a rival robber posing as princess […]

Mar, 22

The Lone Wolf Returns *** (1935, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell) – Classic Movie Review 6842

Columbia Pictures successfully revives the Lone Wolf jewel thief character created by Louis Joseph Vance in 1914 in the first of his series of eight novels, already the subject of nine movies, and casts Melvyn […]

Mar, 22

That’s Entertainment! III **** (1994, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Lena Horne, Debbie Reynolds, Esther Williams, June Allyson, Howard Keel, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 6293

Even if all the best clips are already used up in Parts 1 and 2, writer-directors Bud Friedgen and Michael J Sheridan’s 1994 movie is a still delightfully entertaining second sequel, mixing rare out-takes, backstage […]

Nov, 23

Justice League ** (2017, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

Justice League (2017) is more of the same but weaker and lamer as everything is rehashed in Zack Snyder’s sequel to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). It has the same virtues and the same flaws, […]

Nov, 17

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