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Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones **** (2002, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 212

Hayden Christensen takes over in 2002 as the grown-up Anakin Skywalker in director George Lucas’s fighting-fit Episode II. But the handsome newbie seems a bit like a little boy lost. Anakin falls for the lovely […]

Sep, 02

The League of Gentlemen **** (1960, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 191

The superlative 1960 heist caper film The League of Gentlemen stars Jack Hawkins as a disgruntled former British military officer who assembles a gang of disgraced military gentlemen for a daring bank job.  Renowned producer-director […]

Aug, 26

Saving Private Ryan ***** (1998, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 158

Steven Spielberg’s devastating 1998 Second World War epic war film Saving Private Ryan scooped five Oscars. Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore are outstanding stars. Director Steven Spielberg’s devastating 1998 Second World War epic […]

Aug, 14

Lawrence of Arabia ***** (1962, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Claude Rains, Anthony Quayle, Donald Wolfit, I S Johar) – Classic Movie Review 42

Costing a then record $13 million in 1962, director David Lean’s highly distinguished, monumental classic is surely the epic to end all epics, even more than Cleopatra the next year. Beautifully restored  in 2012 for […]

Jul, 11

Jack Reacher *** (2012, Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Jai Courtney, Richard Jenkins) – Movie Review

An expert sniper (Aussie rising star Jai Courtney) coolly kills five random people, and makes off leaving a lot of clues that lead to the arrest of an innocent man (Joseph Sikora), who, from his […]

Jun, 17

Man of Steel **** (2013, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe, Laurence Fishburne) – Film Review

And so the 30-year-old posh boy from the Bailiwick of Jersey, Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill, becomes the latest incarnation of Superman, now a man who dares not speak his name, known only as alien Kal-El […]

Jun, 12

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