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The Firemen’s Ball [Horí, má panenko] **** (1967, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha) – Classic Movie Review 6921

Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]

Apr, 15

Hellfighters ** (1968, John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Bruce Cabot, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 6731

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s indifferent 1969 movie Hellfighters stars John Wayne as ace oil rig fire fighter Chance Buckman, who fights oil fires instead of Indians, in this desperately routine, seemingly carelessly handled, macho adventure yarn […]

Feb, 24

Firestarter *** (1984, Drew Barrymore, David Keith, Heather Locklear, George C Scott, Martin Sheen, Art Carney, Freddie Jones, Louise Fletcher) – Classic Movie Review 6,012

Drew Barrymore stars in a career-starter early horror role in the 1984 film Firestarter, as a precocious eight-year-old little girl called ‘Charlie’ McGee, who can ignite objects with just a glance. Drew Barrymore stars in […]

Sep, 11

It Comes at Night **** (2017, Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Riley Keough) – Movie Review

‘I think they’re sick. You don’t get it, if they’re sick, then I am too.’ Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s good but gloomy and depressing horror movie stars Joel Edgerton, who is doing his usual sterling […]

Jul, 08

Quest for Fire **** (1981, Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Rae Dawn Chong) – Classic Movie Review 5335

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s bizarre and ambitious 1981 prehistoric times historical adventure epic is impossible to classify and often impenetrable. Never the less, as an attempt to recreate a savage, dawning world, it is mighty impressive. […]

Apr, 23

The Saga of Gosta Berling [Gösta Berling’s Saga] **** (1924, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 5324

In this extremely intriguing curio 1924 Swedish silent movie epic, Greta Garbo stars as Elizabeth Dohna in her first leading part in a feature-length film, co-starring Lars Hanson, and directed by her mentor, the celebrated […]

Apr, 20

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ***½ (1961, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Sterling, Joan Fontaine, Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon, Henry Daniell, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 4860

Co-writer/ producer/ director Irwin Allen’s jolly 1961 sci-fi action adventure disaster movie tells his story about an atomic submarine sent to fix a hole in the Earth’s core. Walter Pidgeon plays the US Navy commander, […]

Jan, 08

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