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Waterworld *** (1995, Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino) – Classic Movie Review 2544

Kevin Costner comes a cropper as the Mariner, a gilled ocean-sailor in director Kevin Reynolds’s ambitious but waterlogged 1995 futuristic action-adventure sea-saga. It is set after the polar ice caps have melted, covering the world […]

May, 30

The Little Mermaid ***** (1989, voices of René Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Kenneth Mars) – Classic Movie Review 2217

Writer-directors Ron Clemente and John Musker’s 1989 animation The Little Mermaid is an undiluted triumph, especially for the music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman. This Walt Disney studio cartoon is a scintillating […]

Feb, 27

K-19: The Widowmaker *** (2002, Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Woodward, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel) – Classic Movie Review 2100

Harrison Ford stars as Captain Alexei Vostrikov, who battles with nice second-in-command Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson) over safety aboard a Russian nuclear submarine on its controversial and eventually tragic 1961 maiden trip. Director Kathryn Bigelow’s […]

Jan, 23

Ghost Ship ** (2002, Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard) – Classic Movie Review 2037

There’s some fun to be had from director Steve Beck’s soggy, cheap-looking 2002 B-movie horror thriller in which a salvage crew finds a long-lost 1962 ghost ship in the Bering Sea. They prepare to tow back […]

Jan, 02

Leviathan ***** (2014, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov) – Movie Review

Russia’s official submission to the best foreign language film category of the 87th Academy Awards in 2015 is a superb movie. Vladimir Vdovichenkov gives a fiery performance as the troubled, embattled Dmitri, who is forced to […]

Nov, 07

The Perfect Storm *** (2000, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C Reilly, William Fichtner) – Classic Movie Review 999

In the stirring, fact-based 2000 adventure drama film The Perfect Storm, set in New England in October 1991, a team of fisherman head off aboard the Andrea Gail on a stormy fishing trip into the […]

Mar, 26

Virus *** (1999, Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 827

Director John Bruno’s 1999 monster movie, based on the comic books by Chuck Pfarrer, is good fun. The 100 minutes just rattles along. It’s Alien on the ocean, as an American crew takes refuge in […]

Feb, 13

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