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Dream One [Nemo] **** (1984, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Seth Kibel, Charley Boorman, Katrine Boorman, Harvey Keitel, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc) – Classic Movie Review 8747
Young Jason Connery, as the teenage Nemo, finds himself inside a dream in director Arnaud Sélignac’s charming, surreal 1984 children’s fantasy adventure Dream One [Nemo], inspired by Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comic strip, with plenty […]
Snow White and the Huntsman * (2012, Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8624
Director Rupert Sanders’s extremely disappointing Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) is a thing of beauty but a lame misfire, with the right cast in Kristen Stewart (as Snow White), Chris Hemsworth (as The Huntsman) […]
Peau d’Âne [Donkey Skin] [The Magic Donkey] **** (1970, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig) – Classic Movie Review 5196
French writer-director Jacques Demy withdraws from reality entirely now in his 1970 film – into childhood dreams and Freudian nightmares, both safe and disturbing at the same time. Catherine Deneuve romps through a magic forest […]
The Pied Piper **** (1972, Donovan, Donald Pleasence, Michael Hordern, Jack Wild, Diana Dors, John Hurt, Roy Kinnear, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 5195
Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]
The Huntsman: Winter’s War ***½ (2016, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, Sam Claflin, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach, Nick Frost) – Movie Review
Those twin marvels of humanity Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron return as the axe-wielding warrior Eric the Huntsman and the Evil Queen Ravenna in the fantasy adventure The Huntsman: Winter’s War, director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s entertaining 2016 […]
The Company of Wolves **** (1984, Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Brian Glover, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 3358)
Based on Angela Carter’s short stories, co-writer/director Neil Jordan’s 1984 British Gothic fantasy horror film is an alluring, visionary Freudian fairy tale for grown-ups. Spooky, sexy, gorgeous and unique, this is a marvellous, special film. […]
Cinderella *** (2015, Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Ben Chaplin, Derek Jacobi, Stellan Skarsgård, Helena Bonham Carter) – Movie Review
Disney remakes its classic 1950 animated feature as director Kenneth Branagh’s very likeable, traditional and romantic if rather dull and old-fashioned live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella, the orphaned servant step-daughter of the Wicked Stepmother, […]