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Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]
Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]
Director Charles F Reisner’s 1928 comedy is the last great Buster Keaton silent movie. It takes its place along with The General (1926) at the peak of his creativity. All involved in the film agreed that he […]
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]
Animation king Don (Anastasia) Bluth shows his versatility by heading for space this time in 2000 in a highly imaginative, explosively paced, gleamingly dark-looking adventure. Matt Damon provides the voice of the hero Cale, an […]
Walt Disney’s thrilling, double Oscar-winning 1954 film version of the famous Jules Verne classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of the best of its sci-fi adventure type. Director Richard Fleischer’s thrilling, double […]
The opening 1948 film in director John Ford’s deservedly renowned and celebrated US Cavalry trilogy with star John Wayne also stars Henry Fonda as a bitter, arrogant, tough lieutenant colonel (based on General Custer) who […]