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South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

Where the Money Is **** (2000, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney) – Classic Movie Review 2018

Director Marek Kanievska’s 2000 caper thriller finds good work for Paul Newman, who is on the money as Henry Mannin, an old master criminal and legendary bank robber who manoeuvres himself out of jail and […]

Dec, 30

Exodus *** (1960, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 1,948

Director Otto Preminger’s ambitious 1960 historical epic film Exodus about the birth of the state of Israel just never seems to end at 217 minutes. Comedian Mort Sahl, attending a preview, stood up and shouted: […]

Dec, 11

Carry On Doctor *** (1967, Frankie Howerd, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 1884

Frankie Howerd stars in Carry On Doctor in 1967 with almost all the regular Carry On team, the 15th in the series, the second to have a medical theme. They gather in style for this […]

Nov, 25

Criss Cross **** (1949, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 1579

Director Robert Siodmak’s intriguing tangled web of a 1949 thriller stars Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, who returns to his home town of Los Angeles and finds his lovely ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) […]

Aug, 23

Patch Adams *** (1998, Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel London, Harold Gould) – Classic Movie Review 1541

Director Tom Shadyac’s 1998 film is a good-hearted if sugary sweet, true-life-derived comedy drama, in which an ideally cast Robin Williams plays Hunter Patch Adams, an offbeat medical student in the 70s who illegally treats […]

Aug, 12

Dawn of the Dead *** (2004, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Zegers, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Lindy Booth) – Classic Movie Review 1466

In his tense and exciting 2004 feature film debut, director Zack Snyder remakes George A. Romero’s 1978 zombie classic Dawn of the Dead as a horror action movie, working from a workmanlike screenplay by James Gunn, co-writer/director of […]

Jul, 24

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