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The Three Musketeers ** (1993, Chris O’Donnell, Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Rebecca De Mornay, Hugh O’Conor) – Classic Movie Review 2309

Director Stephen Herek’s 1993 Austrian-American action-adventure film The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures is a proficient but moderate version of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with a brisk but modest screenplay by David Loughery. The […]

Mar, 24

The Wedding Ringer ** (2015, Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) – Movie Review

Kevin Hart and Josh Gad have their work cut out to make this bromance wedding comedy funny. It would like to be The Hangover crossed with Wedding Crashers, but those prove tough acts to follow. Hart plays […]

Feb, 20

The Order [The Sin Eater] ** (2003, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann, Peter Weller) – Classic Movie Review 2127

Heath Ledger comes a cropper as Catholic priest Father Alex Bernier dispatched to the Vatican to probe the death of head of his arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. He tracks the mysterious circumstances […]

Jan, 29

Underwater! *** (1955, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 2109

Director John Sturges’s 1955 skin-diving adventure movie for the reclusive billionaire producer and RKO studio boss Howard Hughes, is designed to exhibit Hughes’s busty protégée film star Jane Russell (The Outlaw) paddling around in the […]

Jan, 24

Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927

Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]

Dec, 07

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave *** (1968, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 1733

Director Freddie Francis’s 1968 horror movie sequel Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is the quite stylish and still welcome third episode in the Christopher Lee Hammer Films series, following Terence Fisher’s Dracula in 1958 […]

Oct, 03

Dracula: Prince of Darkness **** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 1734

After a long gap, Hammer Films’ 1966 sequel to its finest achievement – the 1958 Dracula – resurrects the Count with the inestimable help of ultra-smooth Christopher Lee back in his most famous role as […]

Oct, 03

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