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The Count of Monte Cristo **** (2002, Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, James Frain, Luis Guzmán, Michael Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 3002

The classic Alexandre Dumas Père adventure yarn is given a thoroughly exciting, glossy, modern work-over in 2002 by director Kevin Reynolds, the maker of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waterworld. For the sake of […]

Oct, 21

The Count of Monte Cristo **** (1934, Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Elissa Landi, Raymond Walburn, William Farnum, O P Heggie) – Classic Movie Review 3003

The 1934 adventure movie The Count of Monte Cristo is a thrilling version of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, with Robert Donat in the star role. Screen-writer Philip Dunne said he never read it and […]

Oct, 21

Rapa Nui *** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Sandrine Holt, Esai Morales) – Classic Movie Review 3000

Co-writer/director Kevin Reynolds’s 1994 adventure movie is a gorgeous looking but completely daft Easter Island saga, set in the 17th century Pacific. When two tribes go to war on Easter Island, Chile, a handsome young […]

Oct, 20

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). His screenplay with regular collaborator Tonino Guerra and Elio Bartolini focuses on the effect on a group […]

Aug, 22

The Incredibles **** (2004, Craig T Nelson, Samuel L Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Brad Bird) – Classic Movie Review 2648

Retired superheroes Mr Incredible and Elastigirl are called back to action on a secret assignment. Little do they know that Syndrome, once rejected as Incrediboy, is out to destroy all superheroes… This clever Pixar/Disney 2004 […]

Jun, 27

Il Postino [The Postman] **** (1994, Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta) – Classic Movie Review 2542

Director Michael Radford’s beautifully filmed 1994 romance stars Philippe Noiret as great, famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda who is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. This causes a huge increase in mail […]

May, 31

The Wild Women of Wongo ** (1958, Jean Hawkshaw, Mary Ann Webb, Candé Gerrard) – Classic Movie Review 2490

‘Savage! Primitive! Untamed!’ Director James L Wolcott’s infamous low-budget 1958 American adventure film The Wild Women of Wongo is a rare so-bad-it’s-good treat. With its stereotypical portrayals of fictional tropical islanders, it is absolutely appallingly […]

May, 16

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