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The Texans *** (1938, Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummings, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 10,266

Director James Hogan’s 1938 film The Texans is a faded but impressively big-scale Western with vigorous handling and feisty turns from a reliable cast. As Texas sorts itself out after the US Civil War, what […]

Sep, 05

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson ** (1976, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 7532

Producer-director Robert Altman takes an ironic look at American history in the 1976 Western movie Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, satirising American popular culture with the help of a top […]

Sep, 02

The Moonlighter ** (1953, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching, John Dierkes, Morris Ankrum, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5223

Director Roy Rowland’s surprisingly limp, sluggish and over-familiar 1953 Western reunites Double Indemnity stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray for this Niven Busch story about a cattle rustler villain, Wes Anderson (MacMurray), intent on changing […]

Mar, 31

Resident Evil: Afterlife ***½ (2010, Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 3971

In that post-apocalyptic world known only to sci-fi writers and movie-makers, Milla Jovovich’s action babe Alice flies to Alaska and finds Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield, from Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). They fly to LA and […]

Jul, 04

Carry On Cowboy **** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas, Peter Butterworth, Bernard Bresslaw) – Classic Movie Review 1910

Director Gerald Thomas’s affectionate 1965 Western spoof Carry On Cowboy is one of the best, funniest and most ambitious of the series, with the director, producer Peter Rogers, writer Talbot Rothwell and the whole Carry […]

Dec, 03

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life *** (2003, Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor, Djimon Hounsou, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 972

Speed director Jan de Bont’s 2003 Lara Croft sequel proves more than the equal of the highly popular original, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). And Angelina Jolie proves even feistier the second time around as the […]

Mar, 23

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider *** (2001, Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Daniel Craig, Chris Barrie, Richard Johnson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 971

Director Simon West’s 2001 action adventure movie, based on the famous video game, sometimes struggles a bit but is always entertaining enough, though its most lasting legacy is that it turned Angelina Jolie into a […]

Mar, 23

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