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A Quiet Place ** (2018, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

John Krasinski’s family-in-peril horror monster movie is smart, well made and meticulous, but rather slow and dull, and hardly ever at all scary, though it does have two or three good nail-biting scenes. Worst, with […]

Apr, 03

The Land that Time Forgot *** (1974, Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 6222

Director Kevin Connor’s decent 1974 British World War One fantasy adventure yarn The Land that Time Forgot has the traditional obligatory minor American film star Doug McClure at the helm as the hero Bowen Tyler. […]

Nov, 10

The Lost World *** (1960, Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, David Hedison, Richard Haydn, Fernando Lamas, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 5122

Director Irwin Allen’s 1960 US adventure movie is the second film version of the famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel about team of scientists and adventurer explorers heading off to the South American Amazonian jungle in […]

Mar, 08

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth *** (1970, Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 2435

Writer-director Val Guest’s daft but amusing 1970 Hammer Films’ follow-up to One Million Years BC (1966) casts lovely, exotic-looking former Playboy 1968 Playmate of the Year Victoria Vetri as the scantily clad leading cave-lady Sanna. […]

Apr, 29

Gremlins ***** (1984, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Dick Miller, Harry Carey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 64

Brilliantly on-form director Joe Dante and writer Chris Columbus deliver a perfectly delightful and deliciously cynical horror comedy in Gremlins in 1984. It is great vicious fun throughout and now a treasured, minor little classic […]

Jul, 18

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