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- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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Hook ** (1991, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1421
Director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 family film is a long, lumbering and unwieldy, Disney-style version of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan fantasy tale. Unusually for a Spielberg movie, it lacks the magic spark it needs. Rather than making […]
Peter Pan ***** (1953, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1416
Supervising directors Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson’s 1953 classic animated feature film based on Scottish novelist and playwright Sir James M Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is one […]
The Desperate Hours **** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March) – Classic Movie Review 1349
Director William Wyler’s 1955 thriller tells the archetypal tale of a gang of ruthless convicts on the run who commandeer a middle-class family’s house and terrorise the whole household. But, the obvious old question is, […]
Mama *** (2013, Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) – Movie Review
Mama is a pretty good, well-crafted Spanish version of the Japanese drippy water, scary videos, troubled mamas kind of chillers. It has its tense and scary moments, plus a whole lot of atmosphere. Co-writer director […]
Inception **** (2010, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page) – Classic Movie Review 801
A fired-up Leonardo DiCaprio is exactly the right fit for writer-director Christopher Nolan’s super-thief Dom Cobb, skilled in stealing valuable secrets from the subconscious during the dream state. Cobb’s offered a chance to get his […]
The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke) – Classic Film Review 784
Austrian director Michael (Hidden, Funny Games) Haneke’s chilling – and chilly – 2009 Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm-winning work about abused children in a small God-fearing Protestant village in north Germany just before World War […]
The Sweet Hereafter **** (1997, Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin, Peter Donaldson, Bruce Greenwood, Caerthan Banks) – Classic Movie Review 769
A tragic bus accident in which 20 children are killed affects everyone in a snow-clad Canadian small town. The bus still lies under ice. Ian Holm stars as Mitch Stephens the out-of-town lawyer, troubled by […]