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Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

Robin Hood *** (2010, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max Von Sydow, Eileen Atkins, Oscar Issac, Mark Strong, Danny Huston, Matthew Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 3443

The untold story of why Robin Hood became an outlaw in the first place provides a good enough excuse for this new 2010 version of the old Robin Hood movies. It seems he was Robin […]

Mar, 02

Fathers and Daughters ** (2015, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Jane Fonda, Diane Kruger, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Director Gabriele Muccino’s heart-tugger is an old-fashioned women’s film, done with plenty of confidence and expertise but unfortunately not enough skill. With a good, expert cast, the talent’s all there, but there are gaping holes throughout the […]

Nov, 10

The Water Diviner *** (2014, Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney) – Movie Review

It’s good to see the gentler side of Russell Crowe for his good-hearted directorial debut. He also stars as an Australian farmer called Connor, who travels to Turkey in 1919 to try to locate his […]

Apr, 01

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World **** (2003, Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1698

Russell Crowe battles the wicked French enemy as Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in co-writer/director Peter Weir’s beautifully crafted, eye-catching, thinking person’s 2003 Napoleonic War epic, based on novels by Patrick O’Brian. The film’s plot […]

Sep, 21

Mystery, Alaska *** (1999, Rusell Crowe, Burt Reynolds, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 1656

  Director Jay Roach’s good-natured 1999 comedy focuses, surprisingly enough, on the little-known remote small US town of Mystery, Alaska, which is obsessed with hockey. And it goes haywire when its amateur team agrees to take […]

Sep, 08

The Quick and the Dead *** (1995, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe) – Classic Film Review 1223

Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]

May, 17

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