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The Big Red One **** (1980, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 3407

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical 1980 war film is spellbinding. His raw, realistic screenplay is based on Fuller’s own experiences of World War Two, as true to historical facts and his personal philosophy as he could make it. The […]

Feb, 25

Village of the Damned ** (1995, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 3194

In a village in Marin County, everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up six hours later, ten women, including a virgin, are pregnant. Nine months after, there are ten lookalike babies all with white […]

Dec, 29

Star Wars: The Force Awakens **** (2015, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill) – Movie Review

After the perhaps rather underwhelming last three Star War films, director J J Abrams said he wanted The Force Awakens to be closer to the original trilogy and that’s exactly what he’s come up with – a […]

Dec, 16

A Fuller Life ***½ (2013, Samuel Fuller, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, Wim Wenders, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bill Duke) – Movie Review

A Fuller Life is a must-see documentary on the life and movies of maverick film director Sam Fuller, poignantly directed by his daughter Samantha, who bursts with curiosity and pride about her dad. Friends and […]

May, 12

Kingsman: The Secret Service **** (2014, Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Samuel L Jackson, Mark Hamill, Jack Davenport, Mark Strong) – Movie Review

Director Matthew Vaughn’s tongue-in-cheek post-modern spy thriller is based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons acclaimed comic book The Secret Service stars Colin Firth is a tailor-made role for him as impeccably suave veteran secret […]

Jan, 16

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ***** (1983, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Film Review 214

With a three-year gap after Irvin Kershner’s 1980 The Empire Strikes Back, co-writer/producer George Lucas delivers the third and final part of his original Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi […]

Sep, 02

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ***** (1977, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse) – Classic Movie Review 210

‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ ‘May the Force be with you.’ Star Wars blew like a breath of fresh air across cinema screens in 1977. Audiences were blown away being […]

Sep, 01

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