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Scooby-Doo *** (2000, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar) – Classic Movie Review 1437

Scooby-Doo, where are you? Oh, there you are, going barking mad as a big-screen cartoon character in an amiably daft live-action teen movie adventure, in which the Mystery Inc gang investigate strange goings on at an […]

Jul, 16

The Guns of Navarone ***** (1961, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 1397

Three cheers for director J Lee Thompson’s famous, stirring, classic 1961 World War Two action/adventure war thriller, based on Alistair MacLean’s 1957 bestselling novel. It follows the fortunes of a team of Allied commando fighters sent to […]

Jul, 05

Johnny Belinda **** (1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 1353

Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]

Jun, 24

The Tempest *** (1979, dir Derek Jarman) – Classic Movie Review 1312

‘We are such stuff. As dreams are made on, and our little life. Is rounded with a sleep.’ – Prospero. Director Derek Jarman’s imaginative and entertaining 1979 unconventional reimagining of William Shakespeare play for the […]

Jun, 09

Evil Under the Sun *** (1982, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Diana Rigg, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley) – Classic Movie Review 1,305

Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]

Jun, 07

My Favorite Wife **** (1940, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott) – Classic Movie Review 1279

Director Garson Kanin’s 1940 screwball comedy brings the absolutely splendid teaming of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, who are on top form as a married couple who find themselves in an unusually tricky predicament. Dunne […]

Jun, 01

The Blue Lagoon *** (1980, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 1254

Director Randal Kleiser’s striking-looking but daft 1980 romantic adventure movie of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel remakes the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, but adds a lot of […]

May, 26

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