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Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

Eddie the Eagle ***½ (2016, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Keith Allen, Jo Hartley, Tim McInnerny, Iris Berben, Christopher Walken) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman are a fun double act in this entertaining, thoroughly enjoyable feel-good movie about Michael ‘Eddie’ Edwards, the unlikely, courageous British ski-jumper and the reluctant, charismatic coach Bronson Peary who trains him for the 1988 Calgary […]

Apr, 01

Pan *** (2015, Hugh Jackman, Levi Miller, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Cara Delevingne, Amanda Seyfried, Paul Kaye, Kathy Burke) – Movie Review

Director Joe Wright’s prequel story of an English orphan boy who is spirited away to the magical Neverland, where he looks for his long-lost mother and finds both fun and danger, is brisk, pleasant and […]

Sep, 20

Chappie ***½ (2015, Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s AI movie is set in a wasted-looking Johannesburg in the near future when crime is rife but it is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. The movie stars Dev Patel (last […]

Mar, 05

Oklahoma! **** (1999, Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, Maureen Lipman, Shuler Hensley) – Classic Movie Review 2191

Sit back in your chair for musical heaven with original stage director Trevor Nunn’s splendid 1999 screen version of the Royal National Theatre’s award-winning 1998 London stage production of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar […]

Feb, 19

Van Helsing *** (2004, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2108

Having successfully resurrected The Mummy, writer-director Stephen Sommers now turns his hand in 2004 to the other Universal horror icons. So, this time, Dracula meets the Frankenstein’s Monster (Shuler Hensley) and the Wolf Man, as […]

Jan, 24

Paperback Hero ***½ (1999, Hugh Jackman, Claudia Karvan, Angie Milliken) – Classic Movie Review 1975

‘He’s hard, tough… and doesn’t give a XXXX for anything… except romantic novels.’ Writer-director Antony J Bowman’s pleasing 1999 Australian comedy Paperback Hero, based on his own novel, is an early hit for the young, […]

Dec, 19

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