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Antz **** (1998, voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 1557

Directors Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson find an ingenious way to find new work for old Woody Allen – as the cartoon voice of an ant! Allen voices neurotic ant Z-4195, a New York Central Park […]

Aug, 17

Street Fighter * (1994, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Kylie Minogue) Bad Movie 4

Writer-director Steven E. de Souza’s 1994 American action film is risibly bad without actually being funny. Based loosely on the Street Fighter video games produced by Capcom, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá, […]

Jul, 13

The Trench *** (1999, Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D’Arcy) – Classic Movie Review 1406

Screenwriter/director William Boyd adapts his own novel for this 1999 First World War wartime film drama in which a platoon of young British soldiers bicker in a tiny 8ft-wide trench in the last 48 hours […]

Jul, 07

The Guns of Navarone ***** (1961, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 1397

Three cheers for director J Lee Thompson’s famous, stirring, classic 1961 World War Two action/adventure war thriller, based on Alistair MacLean’s 1957 bestselling novel. It follows the fortunes of a team of Allied commando fighters sent to […]

Jul, 05

Love Me Tender **** (1956, Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 1357

Elvis Presley makes his historic first movie appearance in director Robert D Webb’s interesting if routine 1956 American Civil War Western with musical numbers about four feuding Southern brothers, all of whom love the sultry […]

Jun, 26

Providence **** (1977, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 1314

Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]

Jun, 11

Edge of Tomorrow *** (2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt) – Movie Review

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt form a surprisingly effective tough-guy duo as two futuristic army soldier types defending the planet from aliens in director Doug Liman’s explosive, brainy blockbuster. Somehow, and please don’t ask me […]

May, 30

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