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Doctor Who *** (1996, Paul McGann, Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook) – Classic Movie Review 3309

It is the first Doctor Who appearance in seven years as (not counting Peter Cushing’s cinema appearances) the seventh Doctor Who, played by Sylvester McCoy, is killed off. But, in the morgue, Paul ­­McGann regenerates into […]

Jan, 31

Withnail & I **** (1987, Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 2579

Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]

Jun, 10

Queen of the Damned *** (2002, Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah) – Classic Movie Review 1787

Director Michael Rymer’s richly enjoyable 2002 horror thriller stars Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, taking over from Tom Cruise in this sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Lestat arises from […]

Oct, 29

Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833

Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]

Feb, 16

Alien 3 **** (1992, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Lance Henriksen, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 43

It’s 1992, and Sigourney Weaver returns with a scary Sinead O’Connor haircut for her spectacular supposedly final battle with the seemingly indestructible Alien on an ore refinery prison planet where she has crash landed in […]

Jul, 11

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