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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen *** (2003, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Jason Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 1082

Sean Connery stars as adventurer Allan Quatermain in director Stephen Norrington’s lively 2003 fantasy comic book adventure, in which seven famous characters from Victorian fiction combine to stop a maniac known as The Fantom from starting […]

Apr, 12

The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur] ***** (1953, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot) – Classic Movie Review 927

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s awesome sweaty-palmed, uber-tense, ultra-tough 1953 action thriller established his international reputation. It also turned Yves Montand into a star as a member of the desperate quartet (Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and […]

Mar, 17

Before Sunset ***** (2004, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 858

It’s 2004, and nine years on from their first tentative but passionate encounter in Richard Linklater’s 1995 romantic drama Before Sunrise (1995), Jesse (Ethan Hawke), now a writer, is back in Europe for a book […]

Mar, 02

Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833

Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]

Feb, 16

Summertime [Summer Madness] ***** (1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, André Morell, Jeremy Spenser) – Classic Movie Review 679

Director David Lean’s 1955 exquisite masterwork is a gloriously unashamed, full-throttled romance, in which Katharine Hepburn plays Jane Hudson, a visiting American spinster who enjoys a summer of chaste love with an old Italian smoothie […]

Jan, 12

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

The Mummy ***** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr) – Classic Movie Review 100

Finally, thanks to the late-Nineties new CGI effects, the cinema found a way of making The Mummy both thrilling and exciting as well as fast and scary, and not just an old geezer wrapped in […]

Jul, 28

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