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The Beastmaster *** (1982, Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8750

Handsome hunk Marc Singer stars as young son of a king Dar, the eponymous mixture of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan the Magnificent and Doctor Dolittle, in director Don Coscarelli’s deliciously daft 1982 sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventure […]

Jul, 23

Beauty and the Beast *** (2017, Dan Stevens, Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline) – Movie Review

Director Bill Condon’s fairy tale musical is romantic, warm and good hearted. It has a charming, sweet nature that is easy to like and hard to take against. It is slickly and smoothly made in […]

Mar, 03

Brotherhood of the Wolf [Le Pacte des Loups] **** (2001, Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne) – Classic Movie Review 4003

A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]

Jul, 12

Beast from Haunted Cave ** (1959, Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 3919

Monte Hellman made his film directorial debut with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). It is shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Lead, South Dakota, for its mine scenes after the local Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives to […]

Jul, 02

The Beast Must Die [Black Werewolf] *** (1974, Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Tom Chadbon, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3092

‘One of our guests is a werewolf, I know it.’ – Tom Newcliffe. Director Paul Annett’s 1974 reasonably enjoyable British werewolf B-movie thriller for producer Milton Subotsky’s Amicus studio is a tough and quite effective […]

Nov, 25

Wendigo ** (2001, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 2492

Writer-director Larry Fessenden’s 2001 horror movie is in the interesting, half-successful category, with a creepy atmosphere and some aspects of it working suspensefully and grippingly along the way to fizzling out in a weak conclusion. A […]

May, 17

Beauty and the Beast ***** (1991, voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Richard White) – Classic Movie Review 2216

Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s 1991 animated feature is a milestone as the Walt Disney studio’s 30th cartoon and happily it proves among the best of its kind. It is an exhilarating movie, an outstanding, […]

Feb, 27

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