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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

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 […]

May, 24

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 […]

May, 03

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 […]

Apr, 23

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 […]

Apr, 16

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 […]

Apr, 03

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 […]

Mar, 27

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