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Invasion USA (1985, Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet) – Classic Movie Review 13,234

Joseph Zito’s 1985 American action thriller movie Invasion USA stars Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, and Melissa Prophet. Norris later said some sequences were ‘a little too much’. ‘No one thought it could ever happen here… […]

Nov, 11

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within **** (2001, voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 8875

Alien ghosts invade Earth in the first totally computer-generated motion capture film to ‘star’ creepy-looking ‘photo-realistic’ humans that won’t put any actors out of work. Based on a hit video game, directors Hironobu Sakaguchi and […]

Sep, 01

La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] **** (1935, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, André Alerme, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 8403

Director Jacques Feyder’s 1935 La kermesse héroïque [Carnival in Flanders] is a bright French romantic comedy adventure that puts a bawdy spin on the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, in which 17th-century Flemish […]

Apr, 27

Mask of the Avenger ** (1951, John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance) – Classic Movie Review 7819

Set in Italy in 1848, director Phil Karlson’s busy, action-packed and modestly entertaining 1951 period action adventure romp Mask of the Avenger is distantly related to its supposed source in Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count […]

Nov, 22

Went the Day Well? ***** (1942, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 5993

Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1943 British classic for Ealing Studios stars Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton and Basil Sydney. It is a most compelling film of Graham Greene’s famous wartime warning fantasy story (The Lieutenant […]

Aug, 29

The Longest Day **** (1962, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Richard Todd, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 5928

This three-hour 1962 blockbuster epic presents the story of the Allied 1944 D-Day Normandy landings according to Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller, producer Darryl F Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. All of them must share the authorship […]

Aug, 17

Churchill ** (2017, Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy) – Movie Review

Try though he might in a valiant effort, Dundee-born Brian Cox doesn’t get past his basic miscasting as Sir Winston Churchill in an interesting but shaky biopic set during the all-crucial 96 hours before the […]

Jun, 16

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