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Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] ** (1984, Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika) – Classic Movie Review 9266

Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream [Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen] is a disappointing film from Herzog about Australian Aborigines clashing with uranium miners over rights to their land that they believe […]

Jan, 15

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

Them! **** (1954, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, Onslow Stevens, Fess Parker, William Schallert, Dub Taylor, Leonard Nimoy) – Classic Movie Review 3720

Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]

May, 19

Ant-Man *** (2015, Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Bobby Cannavale) – Movie Review

Paul Rudd keeps surprisingly cheery as con-man Scott Lang who enjoys the double-edged sword of the ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, apparently at will, so he can get out of trouble whenever […]

Jul, 08

Empire of the Ants * (1977, Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott) – Classic Movie Review 2500

Director Bert I Gordon’s hysterically awful 1977 science fiction horror movie Empire of the Ants is made in the 50s-style, but was actually made in the 70s, about holidaymakers in Florida buying into a phony […]

May, 19

Trauma *½ (2004, Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Kenneth Cranham, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy) – Classic Movie Review 2153

Director Marc Evans’s 2004 thriller stars Colin Firth as Ben, who wakes up from a coma after a car crash to find that his wife is dead, and he starts hallucinating. A few weeks later, […]

Feb, 03

Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] ***** (1929, Luis Buñuel) – Classic Movie Review 1949

After all these years, writer-director Luis Buñuel’s and co-writer Salvador Dali’s uniquely disturbing, revelatory 1929 Surrealist short (17 minutes) film is a still brilliantly eye-catching Pandora’s box of the strangest of delights. It spills over with apparently […]

Dec, 13

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