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Director Frank Coraci’s 2004 remake of producer Mike Todd’s 1956 five-Oscar-winning original stars a reasonably well-cast Steve Coogan. He makes a fair stab at his big star role as Jules Verne’s 1899-set Victorian inventor and […]
Writer-director Gabriel Axel’s 1987 Danish movie won the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. It was a special triumph as it was the first Danish film to win the best foreign film Oscar. It also […]
Director John Ford is working at top level here in 1949 in this thrilling central episode of his US Cavalry trilogy with John Wayne, started with Fort Apache in 1948. Cinematographer Winton C Hoch won […]
Director Elliot Silverstein’s likeable, raucously amusing 1965 spoof Western stars Jane Fonda as the titular Cat (Catherine) Ballou, a schoolmarm turned outlaw and Lee Marvin in dual roles as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn, the cinema’s most […]
Director Martin Campbell’s 1998 American swashbuckler movie The Mask of Zorro is a brilliant, old-style adventure entertainment that proves they could still make them like they used to. It is based on the character of […]
Director Karel Reisz’s fascinating 1981 film of John Fowles’s 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman is graced with another literate, distinguished screenplay by Harold Pinter, striking cinematography by Freddie Francis, a lovely […]
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s slack 1999 comedy is a carelessly handled and drossily scripted big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series The Wild Wild West that gets by on the skills and charms of its stars, as […]