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- A Dandy in Aspic * (1968, Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Lionel Stander, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews, Peter Cook, Per Oscarsson, Barbara Murray) – Classic Movie Review 13,557
- The Hour of 13 *** (1952, Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Derek Bond, Leslie Dwyer) – Classic Movie Review 13,556
- The Night Won’t Talk *** (1952, Hy Hazell, John Bailey, Mary Germaine, Ballard Berkeley, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 13,555
- The Looters * (1955, Rory Calhoun, Ray Danton, Julie Adams, Thomas Gomez, Frank Faylen) – Classic Movie Review 13,554
- The Man from Majorca [Mannen Från Mallorca] *** (1984, Sven Wollter, Tomas von Brömssen, Håkan Serner) – Classic Movie Review 13,553
- The Man from Morocco * (1945, Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris) – Classic Movie Review 13,552
- Catch Us If You Can [Having a Wild Weekend] ** (1965, The Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge, Robin Bailey, Yootha Joyce) – Classic Movie Review 13,551
- The Floating Dutchman *** (1952, Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler, Mary Germaine) – Classic Movie Review 13,550
- According to Otto *** (2025, Jasper Musgrave, Wayne Tunks, Brendan Paul) – Classic Movie Review 13,549
- Beer [The Selling of America] * (1985, Loretta Swit, Rip Torn, Kenneth Mars, David Alan Grier, Dick Shawn, William Russ, Saul Stein) – Classic Movie Review 13,548
This Boy’s Life **** (1993, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 1,434
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s riveting and disturbing 1993 American biographical coming-of-age movie This Boy’s Life stars the amazing actor that was the young Leonardo DiCaprio. He is extraordinarily compelling, quite mesmerising, as Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff, an early […]
Superman Returns ** (2006, Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Sam Huntington, Parker Posey, Eva Marie Saint) – Classic Movie Review 1433
Co-producer/director Bryan Singer dropped out of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) for the chance to make the 2006 Superman reboot, but this proves a bad idea as the movie is a lacklustre disappointment. In the story, […]
Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432
Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]
Tristan + Isolde **** (2006, James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1431
James Franco stars as a dreamy Tristan and Sophia Myles as his feisty royal lover in director Kevin Reynolds’s 2006 epic romantic drama film based on the medieval romantic legend set in the Dark Ages in […]
City by the Sea ** (2002, Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 1430
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s 2002 character-driven thriller is interesting and sometimes involving, but often surprisingly shaky. Ken Hixon writes the slightly struggling screenplay from an article, Mark of a Murderer by Mike McAlary. Well it’s more […]
The Yards **** (2000, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan) – Classic Movie Review 1429
Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes *** (2014, Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Movie Review
It’s 2026 and human civilisation has collapsed. A band of human survivors genetically immune to the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier is living in a guarded tower within the ruined city of San Francisco. […]