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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

White Squall **** (1996, Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Wolf, Ethan Embry, Jeremy Sisto) – Classic Movie Review 654

Jeff Bridges stars as sea captain Christopher ‘Skipper’ Sheldon, who teaches a bunch of teenage lads the ropes aboard ships, in this 1996 thrilling, old-style high-seas adventure. It’s based on a real tale in 1960 when […]

Jan, 08

Jamaica Inn *** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Ney, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 390

Even if you think of the 1939 pirate malarkey adventure Jamaica Inn as a period whodunit, director Alfred Hitchcock is way off his usual territory with such melodramatic costume drama hokum based Daphne du Maurier’s […]

Nov, 10

Captain Phillips **** (2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]

Oct, 09

Titanic **** (1997, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Bernard Hill, Suzy Amis, Frances Fisher, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 77

‘I’m the king of the world.’ Leonardo DiCaprio gets that sinking feeling as his shipboard love for Kate Winslet hits the rocks in this mesmerising blockbuster. Writer-producer-director James Cameron’s romantic disaster movie reputedly cost a […]

Jul, 21

The Red Desert [Il Deserto Rosso] **** (1964, Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti) – Classic Movie Review 73

Monica Vitti gives an extremely fine, distinguished study of a woman on the verge as a dangerously mentally disturbed Italian housewife and mother, who engages in a desperate affair with a visiting engineer (Richard Harris), the […]

Jul, 20

The Relic ****½ (1997, Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 12

Something wicked this way comes! Must-see monster movie The Relic (1997). Something wicked this way comes! A now-missing anthropologist investigating the culture of lost tribes has mysteriously sent crates of leaves from the Amazon jungle […]

Jul, 01

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