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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Red Dawn **** (1984, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Ron O’Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey) – Classic Movie Review 5457
Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action thriller Any Which Way You Can is thoroughly disreputable, but also sneakily very enjoyable as a guilty pleasure. In Milius’s screenplay with Kevin Reynolds (who […]