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Crawl *** (2019, Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre Aja’s dark, gory and nasty horror movie Crawl (2019) has not a single laugh until after it is finished at the end credits, but it still manages to be a lot of unpleasant […]

Aug, 24

Campbell’s Kingdom ** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice, Athene Seyler, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 8683

Director Ralph Thomas’s rugged attempt to make a British Western set in the Canadian Rockies – the 1957 Campbell’s Kingdom – stars Dirk Bogarde as noble Englishman Bruce Campbell, who is the claimant to a […]

Jul, 08

The Flood *** (2019, Lena Headey, Iain Glen, Ivanno Jeremiah, Arsher Ali) – Movie Review

The admirable Lena Headey hits the nail on the head as Wendy, a troubled, weary British immigration officer, whose job it is to decide the fate of an asylum seeker (Ivanno Jeremiah), in director Anthony […]

Jun, 21

The Rains of Ranchipur * (1955, Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michael Rennie, Joan Caulfield, Eugenie Leontovich) – Classic Movie Review 8129

Director Jean Negulesco’s lumbering and uninspired 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur is a slow and slapdash retread of 1939’s The Rains Came, with the young Richard Burton all at sea, miscast in Tyrone Power’s old […]

Feb, 13

Thunder on the Hill [Bonaventure] *** (1951, Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas, Anne Crawford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6675

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1951 thriller was his first A-project in the first year of his contract with Universal, following the modest B-movie Mystery Submarine (1950). It stars Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert Douglas and Anne […]

Feb, 10

The River **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 3242

Director Mark Rydell’s affecting 1984 drama is a classy movie, not least for the superb cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond and music of John Williams, but also for the marvellous, moving star performances of Mel Gibson […]

Jan, 06

The Bible… In the Beginning [La bibbia] ** (1966, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, George C Scott, Ava Gardner, Stephen Boyd, Peter O’Toole, John Huston, Franco Nero) – Classic Movie Review 1045

Director John Huston’s worthy but miscalculated 1966 Old Testament epic boasts a spectacular production and beautiful widescreen images, courtesy ace cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno. But, alas, it is dragged down by an uninspiring screenplay (even though playwright […]

Apr, 04

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