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Alaska *** (1996, Charlton Heston, Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1655

  Director Fraser Clarke Heston’s admirable 1996 children’s outdoor adventure stars Thora Birch and Vincent Kartheiser as two nice kids, Jesse and Sean Barnes, who are stranded in Alaska’s snowy mountain-scapes. With the authorities dithering, […]

Sep, 08

Fantasia ***** (1940, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1250

Walt Disney’s inspired 1940 feature film cartoon masterpiece, comprising eight animated sequences illustrating a piece of popular classical music, is still a magical experience. The highlights include Mickey Mouse trying to hold the water back in Paul […]

May, 25
Wrong Turn *** (2003, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Julian Richings) – Classic Movie Review 1112

Wrong Turn *** (2003, Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Lindy Booth, Kevin Zegers, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Julian Richings) – Classic Movie Review 1112

Director Rob Schmidt’s 2003 American slasher horror movie Wrong Turn is quite capable and stylish and packs a bit of an unpleasantly scary punch, making it stand out from the crowd. It spawned an impressive franchise, […]

Apr, 18

Lone Survivor **** (2013, Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Eric Bana) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Berg tells the true story of Marcus Luttrell and his US Navy Seal team, who set out on a mission to capture or kill the notorious al Qaeda Taliban leader Ahmad Shahd in late June […]

Jan, 29

The Englishman who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain *** (1995, Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart)- Classic Movie Review 734

In Welsh writer-director Christopher Monger’s 1995’s romantic comedy, Hugh Grant has an awfully small adventure in a Welsh small town in 1917. He and Ian McNeice play English cartographers who arrive to measure the height […]

Jan, 23

Seven Years in Tibet *** (1997, Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B D Wong, Mako) – Classic Movie Review 696

Brad Pitt stars as real-life Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer in director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1997 film about Harrer’s adventures in Tibet during and after World War Two. Notably, he becomes friends with the Dalai Lama at the […]

Jan, 15

Jack Frost *** (1998, Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross) – Classic Movie Review 520

Michael Keaton stars as blues singer Jack Frost who is killed in a car crash but, one year later, is reincarnated as a speaking snowman. He now has one last chance to be a better dad […]

Dec, 14

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