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- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
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Peter Pan **** (2003, Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Richard Briers, Ludivine Sagnier, Lynn Redgrave, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 789
Director P J Hogan’s 2003 movie Peter Pan is an excellent, often exhilarating live-action version of Sir James M Barrie’s story about Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter), the boy who flies to Never Never Land with […]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou **** (2004, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 600
Effortlessly strange, the 2004 comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is another crazy cult hit movie from Wes Anderson, the maker of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. It boasts a dazzling ensemble cast, who take […]
Muppet Treasure Island *** (1996, Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 506
Yo-ho-ho! Director Brian Henson’s thoroughly entertaining, delightfully good-humoured 1996 pirate show brings the merriest of mayhem and music with the Muppets. Jim Hawkins (Kevin Bishop) sets off with a treasure map and the Great Gonzo and […]
The Goonies **** (1985, Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen) – Classic Movie Review 298
Written by Chris Columbus and based on an original story by executive producer Steven Spielberg, this spiffing 1985 entertainment is a ripping yarn and an extremely likeable comedy action adventure. It’s bursting at the seams […]
Captain Phillips **** (2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review
Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl **** (2003, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Pryce) – Classic Movie Review 186
Worryingly basing his vocal performance on an impersonation of Keith Richards and his appearance on a mascaraed drag queen, Johnny Depp is as camp as Christmas as boisterous buccaneer Jack Sparrow in director Gore Verbinski’s extraordinarily […]
Spartacus ***** (1960, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, John Gavin) – Classic Movie Review 122
‘I am Spartacus.’ Kirk Douglas is on his finest heroic form in the role he’ll always be remembered for as the fighter Spartacus who leads the slaves in a foolhardy attempt at revolt against the […]