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Hamburger Hill **** (1987, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 9605

British director John Irvin’s 1987 Hamburger Hill is a robust and vigorous Vietnam film that unfairly got rather lost in a year when they were in vogue. It is not as special as Full Metal […]

Apr, 06

Pork Chop Hill **** (1959, Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, George Shibata, Woody Strode, James Edwards, Rip Torn, George Peppard) – Classic Movie Review 3502

Director Lewis Milestone’s tough and distinguished 1959 Korean War movie places a battle for control of a strategic hill in Korea is the centre of the action. It is notable for a series of strong […]

Mar, 25

The Englishman who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain *** (1995, Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart)- Classic Movie Review 734

In Welsh writer-director Christopher Monger’s 1995’s romantic comedy, Hugh Grant has an awfully small adventure in a Welsh small town in 1917. He and Ian McNeice play English cartographers who arrive to measure the height […]

Jan, 23

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

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