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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World **** (2003, Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1698

Russell Crowe battles the wicked French enemy as Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in co-writer/director Peter Weir’s beautifully crafted, eye-catching, thinking person’s 2003 Napoleonic War epic, based on novels by Patrick O’Brian. The film’s plot […]

Sep, 21

Taxi 3 ** (2003, Sami Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Marion Cotillard, Bernard Farcy, Bai Ling) – Classic Movie Review 1386

The entire star cast is back from Taxi 2 (2000) for writer/co-producer Luc Besson’s jolly and impressively silly 2003 second sequel, Taxi 3. It proves another daft, fast-paced, high-energy French all-action crime comedy adventure, with […]

Jul, 02

My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270

In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]

May, 31

The Patriot **** (2000, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 1139

In director Roland Emmerich’s grand, glossy, epic-scale 2000 American War of Independence adventure drama, Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a peace-loving American reluctantly swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. It’s shamefully unhistorical, […]

Apr, 23

The Dreamers **** (2003, Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel) – Classic Movie Review 1018

With the help of Gilbert Adair’s sharp, provocative, intelligent and informative yet ultimately poignant screenplay, based on his own novel, director Bernardo Bertolucci returns to the scene of his Last Tango in Paris and this time […]

Mar, 29

Godzilla *** (1998, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo) – Classic Movie Review 424

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1998 sci-fi action thriller and monster movie sees the old dinosaur with radioactive breath being awakened by French H-bomb tests in the South Pacific and stomping off to terrorise and destroy New York. […]

Nov, 18

Dangerous Liaisons ***** (1988, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 307

Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]

Oct, 21

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