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Quest for Love *** (1971, Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9648

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1971 Quest for Love tells a fascinating sci-fi yarn based on John (The Midwich Cuckoos) Wyndham’s 1954 short story Random Quest, with a screenplay by Terence Feely. Tom Bell stars as Colin […]

Apr, 18

The Matrix Reloaded **** (2003, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 7068

Back in the groovy superhero shades and a new swishy black coat, Keanu Reeves assumes his destiny as the hunky one who is The One in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the second chapter of the […]

May, 19

Videodrome **** (1983, James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits) – Classic Movie Review 6905

Writer-director David Cronenberg’s 1983 Canadian sci-hi horror thriller film Videodrome follows Scanners (1981) as his ultimate exploration into body horror. This shocker is a deep, dank, dark and disturbing dredge through the most dangerous conflicts between mind […]

Apr, 09

Soul Survivors ** (2001, Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 5703

Melissa Sagemiller plays a college young woman called Cassie who is traumatised by a horrific car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck). Cassie is befriended by a mysterious young priest named Father Jude (Luke […]

Jul, 03

Man Down ** (2015, Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara) – Movie Review

Shia LaBeouf gives an intense, smouldering, convincing and classy star turn as disturbed US Marine Gabriel Drummer, who returns home from Afghanistan to be interrogated by Counselor Peyton (Gary Oldman). Something has happened to his son and […]

Apr, 01

White Man’s Burden ** (1995, John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery) – Classic Movie Review 4947

Writer-director Desmond Nakano’s provocative 1995 drama is set in an alternative America where the blacks belong to the social elite and the whites inhabit inner city ghettos. It stars John Travolta as Louis Pinnock, a white blue-collar […]

Jan, 27

Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

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