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A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622

Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]

Dec, 03

The Molly Maguires *** (1970, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar) – Classic Movie Review 8682

Sean Connery and Richard Harris give stalwart star performances in co-producer/ director Martin Ritt’s rarely screened, but extremely powerful if sombre and cerebral 1970 historical drama The Molly Maguires. It is suggested by a book […]

Jul, 07

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood *** (2002, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith, James Garner, Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, Angus Macfadyen) – Classic Movie Review 5009

A total chick-flick is on the menu as some of the screen’s mightiest ladies gather for co-writer/ director Callie Khouri’s heartwarming, life-affirming 2002 Southern saga, set in a sleepy Louisiana small town. Sandra Bullock is […]

Feb, 05

Assassin’s Creed ** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel graduates from directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Wlliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2015) to directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in game series spinoff Assassin’s Creed. Well, fair enough, you go where you can. What we have here is a […]

Jan, 05

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them **** (2016, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Jon Voight, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

And so J.K. Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding world in the first film of a new five-film franchise, a very easy-to-like spinoff prequel to Harry Potter, set in 1926. It marks […]

Nov, 17

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes *** (1935, Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding, Roy Emerton, Leslie Perrins, Charles Mortimer, Michael Shepley) – Classic Movie Review 4477

Director Leslie S Hiscott’s 1935 entertaining British mystery thriller stars the excellent Arthur Wontner, who is back for his fourth of his five ideal performances as Sherlock Holmes in this tale which is a satisfying […]

Oct, 16

National Treasure *** (2004, Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 3826

Director Jon Turteltaub’s family-friendly 2004 Jerry Bruckheimer/Disney epic adventure provides an enormous hit for Nicolas Cage, taking $173,000,000 at the US box office. Nicolas Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, whose family is hell bent on […]

Jun, 08

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