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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
- The Astronaut Lovers [Los Amantes Astronautas] *** (2024, Javier Orán, Lautaro Bettoni, Ailín Salas) – Classic Movie Review 13,205
- Butterfly [Mariposa] *** (2015, Ailín Salas, Javier De Pietro, Malena Villa, Julián Infantino, Justo Calabria) – Classic Movie Review 13,204
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Posts Tagged "based on comic book"
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Diabolik ***½ (2021, Luca Marinelli, Miriam Leone, Valerio Mastandrea) – Classic Movie Review 12,590
Manetti Bros’ 2021 Italian film Diabolik is an engaging, likeable and entertaining reworking of Mario Bava’s 1968 film Danger: Diabolik. Against the odds, it is a success, reworking the original comic book material as a […]
Astérix & Obélix contre César [Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar] ** (1999, Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni) – Classic Movie Review 9564
Director Claude Zidi’s 1999 Asterix and Obelix vs Caesar [Astérix and Obélix contre César] was a huge hit in its countries of origin, France, Germany and Italy, but it is a slack and lazy live-action […]
The Death of Stalin **** (2017, Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Armando Iannucci’s bold, clever and funny biographical comedy drama follows the chaos in Russia as the advisors of evil dictator Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) battle for power on his unexpected death. Extraordinarily, it is based on […]
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets *** (2017, Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen) – Movie Review
There’s no doubt about it, Luc Besson’s sci-fi movie, based on Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières’s comic book series Valerian and Laureline, is one heck of a great-looking film, totally visually awesome with its amazing sets, costumes, make-up and […]
Richie Rich [Ri¢hie Ri¢h] ** (1994, Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole) – Classic Movie Review 5770
Director Donald Petrie’s 1994 comedy stars John Larroquette as Rich Industries’ top executive Laurence Van Dough, who plots to try to separate the world’s richest boy Richie Rich (Macaulay Culkin, aged 14) from his […]
Spawn *** (1997, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, John Leguizamo, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 4583
Director Mark A Z Dippé’s 1997 comic book movie stars Michael Jai White as CIA agent Al Simmons, who is betrayed and incinerated in a chemical inferno by his evil megalomaniacal boss Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen). […]
Doctor Strange ***½ (2016, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review
There are only half a dozen main characters in Doctor Strange, which means we get to see an awful lot of them. This means rather too much of Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, which he plays exactly like […]