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Seven Days in May ***** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 2533

Fired up director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 paranoia conspiracy thriller simmers with tension and delivers edge-of-the-seat suspense in a story that is all about right-wing general  James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster)’s coup with other military leaders […]

May, 28

Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Selma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 2488

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1999 comedy Western big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series is carelessly handled and drossily scripted. It must have been a near thing, very touch and go, but Will Smith’s charisma and […]

May, 16

Galaxy Quest **** (1999, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2395

Director Dean Parisot’s hilarious 1999 Star Trek spoof stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen, who are at their most amusing as the cast of a cancelled cult space TV series who are required […]

Apr, 16

Quo Vadis? **** (1951, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer) – Classic Movie Review 2253

MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]

Mar, 11

White Christmas **** (1954, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen) – Classic Movie Review 2,207

  The entertaining musical film White Christmas was 1954’s most successful film and is now arguably the most famous Christmas movie of them all. Director Michael Curtiz’s entertaining 1954 musical White Christmas is a remake […]

Feb, 23

Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 1777

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s slack 1999 comedy is a carelessly handled and drossily scripted big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series The Wild Wild West that gets by on the skills and charms of its stars, as […]

Oct, 24

Street Fighter * (1994, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Kylie Minogue) Bad Movie 4

Writer-director Steven E. de Souza’s 1994 American action film is risibly bad without actually being funny. Based loosely on the Street Fighter video games produced by Capcom, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá, […]

Jul, 13

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