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The Son of Captain Blood ** (1962, Sean Flynn, Ann Todd) – Classic Movie Review 3288

Sean (son of Errol) Flynn gives a thin-blooded performance as Robert Blood, the son of his real-life father’s notorious pirate character from the excellent 1935 classic swashbuckler Captain Blood. Director Tulio Demicheli’s flabby 1962 adventure […]

Jan, 19

By the Sea *** (2015, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent, Niels Arestrup, Melvil Poupaud, Richard Bohringer) – Movie Review

Patience is required, and somewhat rewarded, for Angelina Jolie’s 2015 work as writer, director and star of this intense, serious but plush and sedate romantic drama, mysteriously set in France during the mid 1970s. Jolie casts […]

Dec, 10

Goliath and the Barbarians [Il terrore dei barbari] *** (1959, Steve Reeves, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Chelo Alonso, Arturo Dominici, Gino Scotti) – Classic Movie Review 2908

Steve Reeves stars as Goliath in the 1959 Italian peplum film Il terrore dei barbari [Goliath and the Barbarians].  ‘10,000 Sights… 10,000 Thrills… The Fabulous Giant of Giants!’ Co-writer/ director Carlo Campogalliani’s 1959 Italian sword and sandal […]

Sep, 13

Gemma Bovery *** (2014, Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider, Isabelle Candelier) – Movie Review

Gallic charmer Fabrice Luchini exactly hits the spot as Martin Joubert, a well-heeled ex-Parisian over-passionate about the writer Gustave Flaubert, who has settled into a French Norman village as a baker. She is married to […]

Aug, 31

Beyond the Reach *** (2014, Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Ronny Cox, Martin Palmer) – Movie Review

Old Michael Douglas and young Jeremy Irvine fight it out in a battle to the death as high-rolling corporate shark Madec and his poor young guide Ben on a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert. Ronny […]

Jul, 29

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06

Where Angels Fear to Tread *** (1991, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 2642

Director Charles Sturridge, maker of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (the 1981 mini-series) and A Handful of Dust (1988), challenges the Ismail Merchant- James Ivory team head on here with an E M Forster adaptation in […]

Jun, 26

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