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The Lawnmower Man ** (1992, Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright) – Classic Movie Review 8552

Director Brett Leonard’s 1992 sci-fi horror movie The Lawnmower Man stars Jeff Fahey as the simple-minded gardener Jobe Smith, who is used as a guinea pig for Dr Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan)’s experiments with virtual […]

Jun, 04

Jekyll & Hyde ** (1990, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 8276

Michael Caine reunites with writer-director David Wickes from his 1988 hit TV film Jack the Ripper for this rather less successful slab of Victoriana, the 1990 British TV film Jekyll & Hyde, made by David […]

Mar, 21

Rhinoceros ** (1974, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 8097

Director Tom O’Horgan’s bizarre 1974 satirical fantasy comedy drama Rhinoceros, set in a town where people are turning into rhinoceroses, may not be a huge success but at least it has the enormous benefit of starring […]

Feb, 05

Dragon Ball Super: Broly **** (2018, voices Masako Nozawa, Shin Aomori, Bryn Apprill, Ryô Horikawa, Bin Shimada) – Movie Review

Director Tatsuya Nagamine’s Japanese anime Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) is dazzlingly bright and lively, and a whole lot of fast-moving fun, with spectacular prolonged frenetic sequences of action and violence, and a terrific soundtrack. […]

Jan, 23

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1999, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Sophie Marceau, Christian Bale, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 7839

‘Love makes fools of us all.’ Writer-producer-director Michael Hoffman brings William Shakespeare’s most magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to an unexpected time and place – Tuscany at the end of the 19th century. Amid […]

Nov, 27

Fright Night **** (1985, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 6092

Chris Sarandon has apparently been taking lessons in smooth, polished bloodsucking from Christopher Lee for his performance as bloodsucker Jerry Dandrige, in this rousing, exceptionally good-humoured 1985 horror movie from writer-director Tom Holland. William Ragsdale plays […]

Oct, 14

Susan and God **** (1940, Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Rita Hayworth, Nigel Bruce, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 5655

Joan Crawford takes over Gertrude Lawrence’s stage role of Susan, the gay Mrs Trexel (of the UK title), for director George Cukor’s 1940 comedy-drama movie based on Rachel Crothers’s celebrated 1937 stage play Susan and […]

Jun, 24

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