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- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
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- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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A Farewell To Arms ** (1957, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio de Sica) – Classic Movie Review 1246
Producer David O Selznick in 1957 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a bloated Hollywood romance in this overlong, overblown and underwhelming remake of the 1932 film with Gary Cooper and […]
Soldier **** (1998, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Jason Isaacs, Michael Chiklis, Gary Busey, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 1174
Director Paul W S Anderson’s superior and intelligent 1998 futuristic sci-fi action movie stars Kurt Russell as Todd 3465, a cyborg sergeant whose superiors dump him on a desolate planet, convinced that he is dead. But […]
We Were Soldiers **** (2002, Mel Gibson, Chris Klein, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 1141
Writer-director Randall Wallace’s 2002 release stars Mel Gibson, who arms up for this raw, gung-ho Vietnam War film, in which he stars as real-life Lt Col Hal Moore, who leads an American force into ‘Nam […]
Paths of Glory ***** (1957, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 1102
In 1957, director Stanley Kubrick confirmed his then growing reputation as one of the most promising film-makers of the era with this harsh, bleak and brilliant, fact-based World War One anti-war film about a French army mutiny […]
The Great Dictator ***** (1940, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 1044
Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier **** (2014, Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Mackie, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan) – Movie Review
‘Gear up! It’s time!’ Chris Evans is back for his fourth appearance as Steve Rogers, in the thrilling 2014 American Marvel Comics superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. ‘Gear up! It’s time!’ – Steve […]
Red Dawn ** (2012, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Robert Kitner, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) – Movie Review
The then Observer film critic Philip French told me recently that he was the only journalist to praise the 1984 Red Dawn (well, that’s not quite true, but you see what he means). Praising it […]