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Ran ***** (1985, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ) – Classic Movie Review 3733

Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]

May, 21

Killer Bees ** (1974, Gloria Swanson, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Roger Davis, Craig Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3101

‘She controls the bees. They’ll kill for her — and die for her. She’s their queen… and she’ll live forever.’ Director Curtis Harrington’s enjoyably daft 1974 horror thriller stars the great silent movie actress Gloria […]

Nov, 26

The Immortal Story [Histoire immortelle] **** (1968, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley) – Classic Movie Review 2554

Director Orson Welles plays Mr Charles Clay, a rich Portuguese merchant in 19th-century Macao, who tells his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio) a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor […]

Jun, 03

Supergirl ** (1984, Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 2246

Director Jeannot Szwarc’s 1984 fantasy adventure stars Helen Slater as Superman’s girl cousin Kara Zor-El, who flies to Earth to bring home a precious Omegahedron, the lump of Kryptonite needed to save her planet.  This […]

Mar, 08

Absolute Power *** (1997, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 1829

This improbable but modestly good and moderately exciting 1997 thriller stars a usefully employed Clint Eastwood as a veteran career thief named Luther Whitney who witnesses a horrific crime involving the US President. Whitney is a […]

Nov, 10

The China Syndrome ***** (1979, Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 900

Jack Lemmon stars as Jack Godell, a nuclear power plant controller who finds a dangerous fault in the plant that the authorities will do anything to keep from the media, in co-writer/director James Bridges’s riveting […]

Mar, 11

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I ***** (2010, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) – Classic Movie Review 578

School’s out – that’s right, after these last two Deathly Hallows movies in 2010 and 2011, no Hogwarts! And this time Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) are trying to find […]

Dec, 27

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