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The Milagro Beanfield War *** (1988, Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga) – Classic Movie Review 7222

Director Robert Redford’s impeccably filmed 1988 saga The Milagro Beanfield War hones in on a battle in the American Southwest between New Mexican farmers and the bad guys who want to develop their land for […]

Jun, 26

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

Lloyd’s of London *** (1936, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing, Virginia Field, Montagu Love, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 4688

Director Henry King’s 1936 period drama stars Tyrone Power, whose career took off with this role as Lloyd’s insurance boss Jonathan Blake, who, it is alleged, is the friend of Lord Nelson (John Burton). Blake […]

Nov, 23

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

A Fuller Life ***½ (2013, Samuel Fuller, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, Wim Wenders, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bill Duke) – Movie Review

A Fuller Life is a must-see documentary on the life and movies of maverick film director Sam Fuller, poignantly directed by his daughter Samantha, who bursts with curiosity and pride about her dad. Friends and […]

May, 12

Mulan **** (1998, voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B D Wong, Donny Osmond, Harvey Fierstein, June Foray, Marni Nixon, Pat Morita, James Hong, George Takei, Soon-Tek Oh) – Classic Movie Review 2219

Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook’s likeable, intriguing and attractively different 1998 Walt Disney animated feature retells an old Chinese folk tale about the story of Mulan (voice of Ming-Na Wen), a young Chinese maiden who learns that […]

Feb, 27

The Wind Rises **** (2013, dir Hayao Miyazaki) – Movie Review

Japan’s greatest animation director Hayao Miyazaki, the 2003 Oscar winner for Spirited Away, combines his own entertaining plot and screenplay, compelling characters and quite stunningly breath-taking animation for his fictionalised and fanciful biopic of Jiro Horikoshi, the wiz who designed […]

May, 07

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