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Jabberwocky **** (1977, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Harry H Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Deborah Fallender, Warren Mitchell, Rodney Bewes, Bernard Bresslaw, Gorden Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 3536
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s delicious 1977 fantasy adventure comedy proves ideal material for him, with its playful nods to Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky and a hint of Monty Python surreal lunacy. At the heart of its […]
Kung Fu Panda 3 *** (2016, voices of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, Kate Hudson) – Movie Review
DreamWorks Animation’s Part 3 is amiable and likeable, very well designed and extremely starry vocally. Meandering around in the middle lane, it is genial and pleasant without being very funny or surprising, or really establishing […]
Hot Fuzz **** (2007, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Billie Whitelaw, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 3314
The comedy team from Shaun of the Dead (2004) delivers the big laughs again with this triumphant spoof thriller that imagines British police such as the like of those shown in TV’s Heartbeat are filmed […]
The Reptile *** (1966, Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 3304
Director John Gilling’s amusing, well-mounted and moody 1966 Hammer horror The Reptile is atmospherically set in an eerie Cornwall. Anthony Hinds (screen writing under the pseudonym of John Elder) provides a sinister tale about a […]
The Devil-Ship Pirates *** (1964, Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Barry Warren, Ernest Clark, Andrew Keir, Michael Ripper, Duncan Lamont, Suzan Farmer, Natasha Pyne) – Classic Movie Review 3278
Christopher Lee stars in a good role for him as Spanish pirate ship’s captain Robeles, who suffers damage fighting on the side of the Spanish Armada and terrorises the English villagers at a small and […]
The Story of Esther Costello *** (1957, Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Ron Randell, Lee Patterson, Fay Compton, John Loder, Denis O’Dea, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 3252
Director David Miller’s awkward but very sincere, well-acted and watchable 1957 British drama stars Joan Crawford as rich society lady Margaret Landi, who finds herself coming to the aid of 18-year-old girl Esther Costello (Heather Sears, […]
Village of the Damned **** (1960, George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 3193
‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]