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Colin Farrell is exceptionally good – warm, appealing and surprisingly convincing as stout-hearted Irish fisherman Syracuse – in writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2009 Splash!-style movie. It has more than a touch of the old Irish blarney to […]
Director Victor Fleming’s 1937 MGM movie of the novel by Rudyard Kipling is a bit creaky, dated and faded now, but it is still very enjoyable and entertaining thanks to the well-told, rattlingly good yarn, […]
Mara Corday, Pat Conway and Dan Seymour star as a reporter, a US Navy investigator and a police lieutenant who join the hunt for loot stashed undersea in a scuttled vessel in director John Peyser’s […]
Errol Flynn stars as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness Norwegian underground, in the stirringly done 1943 patriotic wartime film Edge of Darkness. Warner Bros’ World War Two patriotic wartime toast to the brave […]
Director Charles Frend’s well-meaning 1945 wartime drama is an unusually weak Ealing Studios production – one of their rare disappointments – about fishing rivalry between Cornish and Breton fishermen in the English or French Channel, […]
Director Danny Cannon’s grim 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an even more humourless, even more mechanical slasher movie sequel to the iffy 1997 hit I Know What You […]
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]