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She ***½ (1965, Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Richardson, Bernard Cribbins, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 4454

Ursula Andress stars as She, the beautiful woman cursed with eternal life until she falls in love, in this Hammer Films studio’s re-filming of H Rider Haggard’s fantasy adventure epic, first shot as a talkie […]

Oct, 03

Little Buddha *** (1993, Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying, Alex Wiesendanger, Raju Lal) – Classic Movie Review 4190

Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1993 self-styled final chapter of his ‘Oriental trilogy’ combines a historical biography of Buddha and a lesson in Buddhism with a fictional story about the arrival in Seattle of a deputation of […]

Aug, 17

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud *** (1975, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder) – Classic Movie Review 3326

Director J Lee Thompson’s hypnotic 1975 fantasy thriller The Reincarnation of Peter Proud stars Michael Sarrazin as a college professor called Peter Proud, who experiences flashbacks from a previous incarnation and finds that a TV […]

Feb, 05

Down to Earth ** (2001, Chris Rock, Mark Addy, Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge) – Classic Movie Review 1562

Directors Chris and Paul Weitz’s 2001 comedy is a star vehicle for comedian Chris Rock, who stars as aspiring comic Lance Barton, whose life is cut short by an over-eager angel of mercy. But then […]

Aug, 17

Dean Spanley **** (2008, Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Judy Parfitt, Art Malik) – Classic Movie Review 533

In 2008 Peter O’Toole gave an adorable performance in the British comedy drama film Dean Spanley as a crusty old Edwardian England dad, Fisk Senior, who has little time or affection for his son, Fisk […]

Dec, 16

Cloud Atlas­ ***½ (2012, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess) – Movie Review

‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]

Oct, 09

The Mummy **** (1932, Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 99

Boris Karloff is on fine menacing form, swearing destruction as Imhotep (‘Kheb, khebet…’), in The Mummy (1933). Ironically in real life Imhotep’s name meant ‘He who comes in peace is with peace’. ‘Kheb, khebet…’ – […]

Jul, 28

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