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Zoolander 2 ** (2016, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig) – Movie Review

Yes it’s good to see Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson back on screen as Derek Zoolander and Hansel in the long-awaited sequel to the hilarious Zoolander (2001). It’s been 15 years since the original Zoolander and fashions change […]

Feb, 11

Black Mass *** (2015, Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Adam Scott) – Movie Review

Johnny Depp is good, not brilliant, but good, cast against type as real-life diabolical sociopath Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston. Director Scott Cooper’s fascinating but uneven 2015 gangster […]

Nov, 26

War Horse **** (2011, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Marsan, Toby Kebbell, David Kross, Peter Mullan) – Classic Movie Review 3048

Steven Spielberg’s solidly crafted 2011 British-American war drama War Horse is a guaranteed heart-tugger, with a decent screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis adapting Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel set around World War One. […]

Nov, 09

To Kill a King *** (2003, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, Rupert Everett, James Bolam, Corin Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2120

Tim Roth has a field day as historical film baddie Oliver Cromwell in this tale of the fall of King Charles I (Rupert Everett) at the end of the English Civil War in 1645. It […]

Jan, 26

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan **** (1982, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 1919

The whole old crew of the USS Starship Enterprise are all aboard for director Nicholas Meyer’s tighter, tauter and generally much improved 1982 first sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This time Ricardo […]

Dec, 06

Penguins of Madagascar *** (2014, voices of John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

In this daft, frantic and amusing penguins spinoff from the DreamWorks Madagascar animation franchise, Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico get involved in a global espionage plot. The form a SWAT team of penguins who join forces […]

Dec, 05

The Imitation Game **** (2014, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode) – Movie Review

Debut screenwriter Graham Moore fashions an enjoyable, popular screenplay out of Andrew Hodges‘s book about legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and director Morten Tyldum makes a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. Turing joins the team of code-breakers at Britain’s […]

Oct, 10

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