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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ***½ (2016, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot) – Movie Review

Zack Snyder’s critically bashed superhero head-to-head is a box-office sensation, maybe surprisingly so, maybe not. The two for the price of one deal of infinitely rich and tormented human wrong-righter plus infinitely handsome and conflicted […]

Mar, 30

Atom Man vs. Superman *** (1950, Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 2245

Director Spencer Gordon Bennet’s 1950 comic book adventure reunites him with Kirk Alyn as Clark Kent aka Superman, Noel Neill as Lois Lane, Tommy Bond as Jimmy Olsen and Pierre Watkin as editor Perry White […]

Mar, 07

Superman II **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O’Halloran) – Classic Movie Review 2240

Superman II was filmed back to back with the 1978 Superman and was three quarters completed when tensions arose between director Richard Donner and the producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind and a decision was made […]

Mar, 07

Superman III **½ (Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O’Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn, Margot Kidder) – Classic Movie Review 2241

Christopher Reeve returns for his third outing as Superman who this time finds himself having to fight the rotten trio of mischievous computer keyboard genius Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and evil siblings Ross and Vera […]

Mar, 07

Superman and the Mole Men *** (1951, George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2243

After a couple of serials, director Lee Sholem’s engaging 1951 comic book fantasy Superman and the Mole Men is the first Superman cinema feature. George Reeves takes over from Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent and Phyllis […]

Mar, 07

Hercules [Le fatiche di Ercole] *** (1958, Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Gianna Maria Canale) – Classic Movie Review 922

Director-producer Pietro Francisci’s 1957 film Hercules [Le fatiche di Ercole], inspired by the Greek legend and the epic poem Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius [Apollonius of Rhodes], is the first in an international hit series of Italian […]

Mar, 16

Man of Steel **** (2013, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe, Laurence Fishburne) – Film Review

And so the 30-year-old posh boy from the Bailiwick of Jersey, Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill, becomes the latest incarnation of Superman, now a man who dares not speak his name, known only as alien Kal-El […]

Jun, 12

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