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Time Bandits ***** (1981, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, Craig Warnock, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 2470

Co-writer, producer, director Terry Gilliam’s outstanding, quite magical 1981 British time-travel fantasy movie about dwarves taking a little boy with them on adventures through time is dark, weird and wonderful. With the young boy Kevin […]

May, 11

Popeye **** (1980, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 1595

Robin Williams makes his star movie début in director Robert Altman’s ludicrously underrated, under-patronised and undervalued 1980 live-action version of the E C Segar cartoon. Williams and Shelley Duvall are just perfect as the spinach-eating […]

Aug, 26

The Portrait of a Lady **** (1996, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich) – Classic Movie Review 1264

Director Jane Campion’s 1996 period drama literary adaptation is a chilly but excellent version of the Henry James novel, set in 1870s England. Everything about it is extremely plush, subtle, expert and just right. Nicole […]

May, 28

The Shining ***** (1980, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Anne Jackson, Joe Turkel, Philip Stone) – Classic Movie Review 85

Jack Nicholson’s barnstorming, grandstanding performance dominates Stanley Kubrick’s superlative 1980 chiller The Shining, based (remotely) on the Stephen King novel. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a slick but rather seedy loser who is hired by smooth […]

Jul, 24

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