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Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16

The Road ***½ (2009, Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Classic Movie Review 3,784

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee give impeccable performances under difficult grungy circumstances as a father and son at the end of the road, in the bleak but distinguished 2009 apocalyptic drama film The Road, based […]

May, 29

Jane Got a Gun **½ (2016, Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Noah Emmerich, Rodrigo Santoro, Boyd Holbrook, Sam Quinn) – Movie Review

Natalie Portman stars as Jane Hammond, who desperately asks her ex-lover Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) for help in order to save her outlaw husband Bill ‘Ham’ (Noah Emmerich) from an evil gang out to kill him. But Frost is eaten up […]

Apr, 21

127 Hours **** (2010, James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn – Classic Movie Review 3348

Courage and the life-force personified, James Franco is quite brilliant in an extraordinary, virtually solo Oscar-nominated tour-de-force as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston who gets trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone and mobile-less near […]

Feb, 12

The Revenant **** (2015, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas) – Movie Review

‘All I had was my boy… but he took him from me, you understand? He’s afraid. He knows how far I came to find him. ‘ In his first role since The Wolf of Wall […]

Dec, 19

No Escape *** (2015, Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director John Erick Dowdle’s No Escape is an ultra-tense, exciting white-knuckle ride. Owen Wilson is great in a straight role as the distraught, demented dad determined not to die. Owen Wilson and Lake Bell star […]

Aug, 28

Les combattants [Love at First Fight] **** (2014, Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs) – Movie Review

Kévin Azaïs stars as dreamy blue-collar boy Arnaud, who runs into the doomy, aggressive, muscular middle-class teen Madeleine (Adèle Haenel) when she fights him in training on the beach. They’re absolute opposites. He has good friends, likes […]

Jun, 20

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