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Morgan ** (2016, Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Kate Mara stars as corporate risk-management consultant Lee Weathers, who arrives at some dark old house in the country where Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), an artificially created humanoid being has just stabbed a doctor (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in […]

Sep, 02

The Legend of Tarzan ** (2016, Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, Simon Russell Beale, Jim Broadbent, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens) – Movie Review

If you’re going to remake Tarzan you’d better have a good reason, a good story, a good production and a good film. By and largely the disappointing The Legend of Tarzan fails on all four counts. Harry […]

Jul, 07

Departure **** (2015, Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard, Finbar Lynch, Niamh Cusack) – Movie Review

Juliet Stevenson and Alex Lawther give the most brilliant, quite heart-breaking performances as a very English, middle-class mother and teenage son packing up for good their idyllic long-term holiday home in the South of France. […]

Mar, 10

McLintock! *** (1963, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Yvonne De Carlo, Alissa Wayne, Chill Wills, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kruschen, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 3411

Best friends in real life, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara star together for the fourth of their five movies in director Andrew V McLaglen’s thoroughly enjoyable, typically raucous, rowdy romantic comedy Western. There are some soapy […]

Feb, 26

The Benefactor **½ (2015, Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning, Theo James) – Movie Review

Richard Gere looks as old as Methusalah as Franny, an eccentric, dope-smoking, stinking rich philanthropist who meddles in the lives of a newly-married young couple in an attempt to relive his past. Dakota Fanning and Theo […]

Feb, 24

Angel *** (1937, Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3356

Producer- director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1937 sincere and over-earnest love triangle comedy drama stars Marlene Dietrich as Lady Maria ‘Angel’ Barker, a woman who is neglected by her English diplomat husband Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall) and […]

Feb, 14

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

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