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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Hamburger Hill **** (1987, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 9605
British director John Irvin’s 1987 Hamburger Hill is a robust and vigorous Vietnam film that unfairly got rather lost in a year when they were in vogue. It is not as special as Full Metal […]
Blind Fury *** (1989, Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 8865
Director Phillip Noyce’s 1989 Blind Fury stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a war-blinded samurai swordsman and Vietnam vet, who rescues Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call), the spoiled son of his old army buddy Frank Devereaux […]
Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534
Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]
Last Flag Flying **** (2017, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell) – Movie Review
Director Richard Linklater’s poignant 2017 drama, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan, is absolutely first rate. There are three marvellous performances, a great script, some tremendous bitter-sweet moments, and a wonderful tear-jerking ending. Bryan […]
Saint Jack **** (1979, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6326
Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1979 cult movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1973 novel Saint Jack is one of his best films for many years, made after a three-year hiatus following three flop movies in a row. Ben […]
Gardens of Stone **** (1987, James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D B Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stewart Masterson) – Classic Movie Review 4733
Director Francis Coppola’s hardly seen 1987 movie Gardens of Stone was another setback to the careers of its star James Caan and director. It was mysteriously taken off during the first week of its London […]
American Pastoral ** (2016, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Molly Parker, Samantha Mathis, Rupert Evans) – Movie Review
Philip Roth’s novel won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 but you would never know why from this earnest, sincere and well meaning but ponderous and struggling 2016 drama from Ewan McGregor in his […]