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The Sisters **** (1938, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Jane Bryan, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 4,376

Bette Davis is having trouble with Errol Flynn in the 1938 Warner Bros black and white drama film The Sisters. Davis is in her intense element, and they are an exciting team, though not much […]

Sep, 18

The Monster That Challenged the World *** (1957, Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried) – Classic Movie Review 3920

Mollusk monsters attack California. Dr Jess Rogers: ‘We must remember that these creatures can travel over land, too.’ Director Arnold Laven’s junior-league 1957 sci-fi horror movie/ creature feature The Monster That Challenged the World is […]

Jul, 02

The Mole People * (1956, John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 3,497

The creaky old black and white 1956 chiller film The Mole People stars John Agar as a scientist who starts an expedition to a lost underground city of albino inhabitants who have made slaves of […]

Mar, 24

Earthquake **** (1974, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree, Lloyd Nolan, Marjoe Gortner, Victoria Principal, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 3431

Director Mark Robson’s epic 1974 disaster movie is preposterously entertaining with the right manly main star in Charlton Heston (as construction engineer Stuart Graff), an ambitious, costly production, tedious personal dramas and excellent Oscar-winning visual […]

Mar, 01

Creatures the World Forgot ** (1971, Julie Ege, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Tony Bonner, Robin John) – Classic Movie Review 2441

Julie Ege stars as top cave-dweller Nala the Girl in director Don Chaffey’s amusingly daft 1971 follow-up to his One Million Years BC (1966), Slave Girls (1967) and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970). The fourth […]

May, 01

The Wind Rises **** (2013, dir Hayao Miyazaki) – Movie Review

Japan’s greatest animation director Hayao Miyazaki, the 2003 Oscar winner for Spirited Away, combines his own entertaining plot and screenplay, compelling characters and quite stunningly breath-taking animation for his fictionalised and fanciful biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the wiz who designed […]

May, 07

Escape from L A ** (1996, Kurt Russell, Cliff Robertson, Georges Corraface, A J Langer, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, Michelle Forbes, Pam Grier, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 1176

Director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell reunite in 1996 for a fairly feeble, low-imagination, low-adrenaline sequel to 1981’s Escape from New York that plays more like a re-make. They shouldn’t have proceeded without a […]

May, 03

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