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North West Mounted Police *** (1940, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 6071

The Paramount Pictures studio was rewarded with a hit when it paid for a top cast and Technicolor for producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s somewhat mundane, but well and busily plotted 1940 action adventure about the […]

Oct, 10

Out of Iraq ***½ (2016, Nayyef Hrebid, Hayder ‘Btoo’ Allami, Michael Failla) – Movie Review

Directors Chris McKim and Eva Orner’s emotionally thrilling 2016 documentary is a great story with a happy ending well told. Usually happy stories don’t make good films, but this one does, as there’s plenty of high […]

Mar, 22

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams *** (1974, Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks, Marjorie Harper, Lisa Jones, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 3277

Dan Haggerty stars in director Richard Friedenberg’s 1974 wildlife family Western adventure as grizzled woodsman trapper James ‘Grizzly’ Adams, who is mistakenly accused of the crime of murder. Fleeing from bounty hunters, he treks off […]

Jan, 17

Fly Away Home **** (1996, Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, Dana Delany) – Classic Movie Review 2812

Director Carroll Ballard’s delightful 1996 children’s adventure film is based on the autobiography of Bill Lishman. A 13-year-old girl’s mother dies in a car crash in New Zealand and the lass called Amy Alden (Anna […]

Aug, 14

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut *** (1999, voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone) – Classic Movie Review 1897

Co-writer/director Trey Parker’s outrageous 1999 animated satirical comedy centres on American parents who try to force their government to wage war on the corrupting Canadians. Cartman, Kenny, Kyle, Stan and Chef from Parker and Matt […]

Nov, 28

The Whole Nine Yards *** (2000, Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 1,569

Matthew Perry is rewarded with the best possible star supporting player in Bruce Willis, in the often very funny 2000 crime comedy film The Whole Nine Yards, a weird screwball farce with a high body […]

Aug, 19

Grey Owl **** (1999, Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Graham Greene, Renée Asherson, Stephanie Cole) – Classic Movie Review 1446

Pierce Brosnan is first-rate as a Native American imposter in director Richard Attenborough’s good-hearted, unfairly overlooked 1999 adventure and true story biopic. Writer William Nicholson’s screenplay makes a really good, fascinating thing out of the unusual story […]

Jul, 18

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