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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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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
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First Blood **** (1982, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 1599
Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 action thriller First Blood profitably started Sylvester Stallone off on a new career as his iconic character, Vietnam veteran John J Rambo, rivalling his Rocky character for popularity. Indeed its success […]
Carry On Nurse **** (1959, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bill Owen, Irene Handl, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1213
One of the most successful and best of the Carry On movies, director Gerald Thomas’s Carry On Nurse was Britain’s top money-maker in 1959. Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Hyde White star as broken-wristed […]
Rules of Engagement *** (2000, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Blair Underwood, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 957
Director William Friedkin’s sharply handled, well-acted, sometimes exciting 2000 movie is an intriguing, intelligent and provocative mix of action movie, courtroom drama, ethical discussion and morality tale. An embittered Vietnam veteran-turned-small-time-lawyer, Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine **** (2009, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston) – Classic Movie Review 806
Pecs gleaming and locks glowing, Hugh Jackman growls and glowers to comic-book perfection as James Logan, who becomes the fighting machine known as Wolverine, a hairy bloke with handy killer claws, nifty healing powers and […]
Scent of a Woman ***** (1992, Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar) – Classic Movie Review 800
In producer-director Martin Brest’s entertainingly sentimental 1992 epic comedy drama Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino gives a glorious show-stopping performance that runs the gamut from funny via sad to tough in turns, winning his […]
The Last Castle **** (2001, Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 752
Robert Redford enjoys his tailor-made part as a jailed three-star general, who rallies 1,000 inmates to rise up against their evil governor, in director Rod Lurie’s involving and finally exciting 2001 prison movie thriller. As […]
Avatar **** (2009, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriguez, C C H Pounder) – Classic Movie Review 577
Director James Cameron’s 2009 fantasy action adventure movie Avatar is the highest grossing film in history. It won three Oscars, for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Art Direction and Cinematography, acknowledging its incredible state-of-the-art images. Six […]