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One-Eyed Jacks ***** (1961, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 1678

Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]

Sep, 15

Down by Law ***** (1986, Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni) – Classic Movie Review 1635

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 noirish dark comedy is a brilliant major cult movie, still as fresh as the day it was made. It’s dazzlingly filmed in glorious eye-catching monochrome images on striking down-at-heel Louisiana locations […]

Sep, 05

Pitch Black **** (2000, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1623

A commercial transport spacecraft crashes, stranding the surviving passengers on a sun-scorched barren planet populated only by a dangerously troublesome alien race of predators. The bloodthirsty creatures come out to feast only by night, but unfortunately for the […]

Sep, 02

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 […]

Aug, 28

Madagascar *** (2005, voices of Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer) – Classic Movie Review 1560

DreamWorks Animation’s likeable and appealing but very modest 2005 computer-animated comedy unsurprisingly had a mixed reviews but the public loved it and it was a surprise blockbuster box office hit, spawning two sequels so far. It was a very […]

Aug, 17

Chicken Run ***** (2000, voice of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 1,558

Producer/story-writer/directors Nick Park and Peter Lord’s adorable 2000 Aardman film feature-length animation film Chicken Run stars the voice of Mel Gibson as Rocky Rhodes, the Rhode Island rooster. This lovely, adorable, delightfully funny smash-hit British animated […]

Aug, 17

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared **** (2013, Robert Gustafsson) – Movie Review

Robert Gustafsson stars as the dynamite expert Allan Karlsson, who escapes through the window from his old folk’s home on his 100th birthday, just when they’re bringing his cake around, along with what turns out to […]

Jul, 03

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