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Dead Calm **** (1989, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane) – Classic Movie Review 3335

Director Phillip Noyce’s brilliant 1989 Australian horror thriller Dead Calm stars Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman as a married couple called John and Rae Ingram, who are trying to recover from the tragic death of their son […]

Feb, 07

Jungle Book **** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 2403

Director Stephen Sommers’s 1994 family adventure sees the Walt Disney Studio remaking its own beloved 1967 cartoon in a sleek, superbly realised live-action movie. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic, it is well pitched between a […]

Apr, 18

Event Horizon ***½ (1997, Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 1173

Script problems and an unnecessarily nasty tone do some structural damage to director Paul (Mortal Kombat) Anderson’s eerily spooky 1997 science-fiction chiller, in which a rescue ship sets off to find the title deep-space research […]

May, 04

The Hunt for Red October **** (1990, Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 728

From brilliant action director John McTiernan, the maker of Predator and Die Hard, this 1990 cheeky and exciting action thriller blockbuster is one of the best of its kind. A commanding Sean Connery is on […]

Jan, 21

Omen III: The Final Conflict *** (1981, Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Mason Adams, Robert Arden) – Classic Movie Review 558

In his first feature film, Graham Baker directs the final part of The Omen trilogy in 1981, with the evil Damien Thorn now aged 33 and all set to ensure Christ’s Second Coming won’t happen by […]

Dec, 21

Dean Spanley **** (2008, Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Judy Parfitt, Art Malik) – Classic Movie Review 533

In 2008 Peter O’Toole gave an adorable performance in the British comedy drama film Dean Spanley as a crusty old Edwardian England dad, Fisk Senior, who has little time or affection for his son, Fisk […]

Dec, 16

Jurassic Park III **** (2001, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H Macy, Téa Leoni) – Classic Movie Review 362

You’d think one close encounter with dinosaurs would have been enough for palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill). But here he is in 2001, eight years on from part one, again stranded on a dinosaur […]

Nov, 04

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