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Blade Runner 2049 *** (2017, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Jared Leto) – Movie Review

Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is a great looking movie, with amazing visuals and effects. It is thoughtful and intelligent sci-fi action, in the great tradition of the original, though of course, not surprisingly, inferior to […]

Oct, 04

The Return of Dr Fu Manchu *** (1930, Warner Oland, O P Heggie, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 5819

Director Rowland V Lee’s creaky but creepy 1930 Paramount horror thriller brings back Warner Oland, who is fun re-creating his role as Sax Rohmer’s evil criminal mastermind Dr Fu Manchu from the 1929 film The […]

Jul, 28

Alien: Covenant **** (2017, Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride) – Movie Review

Oh there’s a signal from a weird planet, let’s respond to it! Oh, heck, it’s an alien, let’s shoot it with old-fashioned guns. Oh, hell, it’s after us, let’s run. Thank God, we’re back on […]

May, 09

Big Bad Mama II ** (1987, Angie Dickinson, Robert Culp, Danielle Brisebois, Julie McCullough, Jeff Yagher, Bruce Glover) – Classic Movie Review 5370

The 55-year-old Angie Dickinson returns as big bad Wilma McClatchie, a feisty armed robber dame, in co-writer/ director Jim Wynorski’s neo-noir crime action thriller Big Bad Mama II, an unexpected, belated 1987 low-budget $1.2 million […]

Apr, 30

Jungle Woman * (1944, Evelyn Ankers, J Carrol Naish, Acquanetta, Samuel S Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 5241

‘RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!… FURY OF A BEAST!’ Director Reginald LeBorg’s hilariously banal, incredibly cheap-looking 1944 Universal Pictures sequel to 1943’s Captive Wild Woman has an almost identical story of what happens after a second mad scientist, […]

Apr, 02

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back **½ (2016, Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh) – Movie Review

Back comes Tom Cruise, the 5’7” impersonator of novelist Lee Child’s original 6’5” Jack Reacher, a drifter with extreme combat and investigation skills, in this entirely acceptable, but not particularly distinguished time-passing sequel to Paramount’s moderately successful 2012 […]

Oct, 19

Class of ’44 *** (1973, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, William Atherton, Sam Bottoms, Deborah Winters) – Classic Movie Review 4253

Gary Grimes stars again in Class of ’44, the welcome 1973 sequel to his breakthrough movie Summer of ’42 (1971), which follows his character Hermie’s progress to college. Director Paul Bogart’s 1973 youth drama Class of […]

Aug, 28

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