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Kevin Costner’s self-directed 1997 post-apocalyptic epic, the land equivalent of Waterworld, got the thumbs down almost everywhere, though it has its impressive moments in that dreadfully long running time of 180 minutes. It’s 2013, and […]
Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]
Allied prisoners of war make a daring escape by hijacking their freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland, in the 1965 World War Two adventure film Von Ryan’s Express, starring Frank Sinatra. Director […]
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling and spectacular 1988 fantasy comedy adventure epic stars ideally cast theatre actor John Neville. He is on commanding form as Baron Munchausen, the 18th-century Prussian aristocrat who travels around the universe, enjoys wartime exploits […]
Most entertaining old-style horror movie, set in the creepy asylum of the title, with an exceptionally plush production and highly amusing tongue-in-cheek turns from Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine and David Thewlis. Taking it all very seriously, […]
Co-producer/writer/director Steven Lisberger’s attractive and appealing 1982 surreal electronic-age Sci-Fi adventure from an unexpected Walt Disney Studios is smart, stylish, exciting and visually thrilling. It received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards and received […]
Christopher Lambert runs and jumps athletically around in director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon’s 1992 entertaining but basic futuristic action prison movie as former black beret captain John Brennick. He is arrested at a US emigration point along […]