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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
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- 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
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
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The Crucifer of Blood *** (1991, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Simon Callow, John Castle, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 2584
All-American actor Charlton Heston (born plain John Carter) dons the British sleuth deerstalker and gets to play Sherlock Holmes for a surprisingly successful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outing. It is tensely and atmospherically directed by […]
An American Werewolf in London ***** (1981, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne) – Classic Movie Review 2518
Writer-director John Landis dazzlingly mixes full-out humour with full-on horror for this brilliant Oscar-winning 1981 classic tale of two naive young American college student tourists (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) back-pack hiking in northern England […]
The Ring [Ringu] **** (1998, Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi) – Classic Movie Review 2294
Director Hideo Nakata’s 1998 seminal Japanese horror movie Ringu centres on an infamous mysterious killer videotape that is causing everyone who views it to die within a week. While probing the death of her friend’s […]
Into the Woods ***** (2014, Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp) – Movie Review
Seizing her chance to overact for America, Meryl Streep triumphs as The Wicked Witch in director Rob Marshall’s enormously entertaining, glorious looking, highly imaginative and quite magical movie version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim stage show. […]
Simon Magus **** (1999, Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 1788
Writer-director Ben Hopkins’s 1999 film is a sincere, atmospheric and enjoyable if occasionally slightly plodding Jewish fable of old Silesia. There the lanky simpleton Simon Magus – nicely played by Noah Taylor (the youth from […]
The Mexican ** (2001, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1783
Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]
The Brothers Grimm **½ (2005, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1611
The grim news in that director Terry Gilliam’s 2005 movie is not a fairy tale success, though Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are extremely game and likeable as the real-life tall story-telling brothers, Will and […]