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Norman Taurog’s 1931 vintage kids’ movie Skippy stars Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan. Taurog won an Oscar for Best Direction and Cooper, aged nine, became the youngest to gain a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Director […]
Superman II was filmed back to back with the 1978 Superman and was three quarters completed when tensions arose between director Richard Donner and the producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind and a decision was made […]
Christopher Reeve returns for his third outing as Superman who this time finds himself having to fight the rotten trio of mischievous computer keyboard genius Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and evil siblings Ross and Vera […]
Christopher Reeve is back for one last time as The Man of Steel in director Sidney J Furie’s 1987 fourth and final episode in the series with a story and screenplay he co-wrote about Superman tackling […]
‘You ain’t gonna let honesty stand in the way o’ bein’ smart? ‘ – Long John Silver. Director Victor Fleming’s 1934 adventure movie is a splendidly rambunctious, rumbustious retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 classic young […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]
Though ambitious, costly, awesome-looking and entertaining, director Richard Donner’s 1978 first film in the original four-part Superman saga is also unfortunately pompous, pretentious and patchy. The main assets are: (1) the late, great Christopher Reeve […]
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