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Jungle Book **** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 2403

Director Stephen Sommers’s 1994 family adventure sees the Walt Disney Studio remaking its own beloved 1967 cartoon in a sleek, superbly realised live-action movie. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic, it is well pitched between a […]

Apr, 18

The Cave *** (2005, Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo) – Classic Movie Review 1746

  Divers stranded in in an underwater cave network confront scary, bloodthirsty creatures in director Bruce Hunt’s intense and gory 2005 low-budget chiller. Dr Nicolai (Marcel Iures)’s scientific team are exploring the legend of the monster-fighting Knights Templar in […]

Oct, 06

Possession ** (2002, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1,713

Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama film Possession stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart, and is based on the 1990 Booker Prize-winning novel by British author A S Byatt. Co-writer/ director Neil LaBute’s 2002 romantic mystery drama […]

Sep, 27

The Brothers Grimm **½ (2005, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 1611

The grim news in that director Terry Gilliam’s 2005 movie is not a fairy tale success, though Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are extremely game and likeable as the real-life tall story-telling brothers, Will and […]

Aug, 30

300: Rise of an Empire **** (2014, Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Jack O’Connell, Hans Matheson) – Film Review

Australian film and television actor Sullivan Stapleton stars as Greek general Themistocles, who leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy, in this […]

Mar, 06

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones *** (2013, Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Lena Headey) – Movie Review

Teenage girls (and a few boys) will be in heaven with this flashy special-effects-led Twilight meets Harry Potter fantasy adventure, with a non-stop breathless rush of magic, action, effects and romance. It’s all set in […]

Aug, 22

Ripley’s Game **** (2002, John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli) – Classic Movie Review 108

Patricia Highsmith’s distinguished, chilling crime novel Ripley’s Game (the third book in her Tom Ripley sequence) becomes a slick, polished and riveting pulp fiction thriller in 2002 in the expert hands of an unexpected film-maker […]

Jul, 30

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