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Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s typically idiosyncratic 1945 romantic comedy is simply enchanting. The film boasts irresistible acting from the great cast of some of Britain’s most reliable performers of the day, a lovely screenplay with […]
Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]
The triple-Oscar-winning 1975 monster movie classic that propelled the 28-year-old director Steven Spielberg to the front rank of cinema story-tellers is a sleekly crafted rollercoaster ride of fear, suspense and thrills. Based on the bestselling […]
Director Roland Emmerich’s 1998 sci-fi action thriller and monster movie sees the old dinosaur with radioactive breath being awakened by French H-bomb tests in the South Pacific and stomping off to terrorise and destroy New York. […]
Fresh from Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson had the chance to pay homage to the 1933 King Kong classic monster movie that he had adored all his life, and gleefully grabbed it with this loving […]
There’s a huge monster, high adventure, tongue-in-cheek humour and even a dash of sex in director John Guillermin’s busy and conscientious but patchy and rather uninspired 1976 remake of the 1933 all-time great fantasy adventure […]
In 1997, Steven Spielberg turns out a less good but still highly entertaining sequel to his 1993 dinosaur adventure megahit Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum is back as chaos theorist mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm, and provides […]