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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
Changing Lanes **** (2002, Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1425
Director Roger Michell’s 2002 drama is a real thriller. It was one of its year’s best films. After a minor road prang in the rain in New York, harassed, up-and-coming lawyer Ben Affleck and insurance […]
Planet of the Apes ***** (1968, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1424
Based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French novel Monkey Planet (La Planète des singes) , director Franklin J Schaffner’s awesome 1968 sci-fi adventure gives Charlton Heston one of his most memorable roles as George Taylor, an astronaut […]
Mother *** (1996, Debbie Reynolds, Albert Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1423
Debbie Reynolds is ideally cast as Beatrice Henderson, the mother from hell in star/co-writer/director Albert Brooks’s entertaining 1996 comedy. She has a successful but middle-aged science fiction writer son (Brooks), who moves back in to live […]
Hook ** (1991, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1421
Director Steven Spielberg’s 1991 family film is a long, lumbering and unwieldy, Disney-style version of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan fantasy tale. Unusually for a Spielberg movie, it lacks the magic spark it needs. Rather than making […]
The Mother **** (2003, Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1422
Director Roger Michell’s 2003 drama is a challenging, taboo-breaking eye-opener, with a provocative, poignant screenplay by Hanif Kureishi and marvellous, bold performances by Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. The husband (Peter Vaughan) of an English woman (Reid) […]
Return to Oz *** (1985, (Fairuza Balk, Jean Marsh, Nicol Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 1420
The Walt Disney studio returns to L Frank Baum’s original stories for this dark-tinged 1985 fantasy about Dorothy’s non-musical trip to a derelict Yellow Brick Road and a ruined Emerald City. It’s based on Baum’s […]
Return to Never Land ** (2002, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1419
Directed by Robin Budd and Donovan Cook in 2002, Return to Never Land is an all too ordinary, flatly animated and unimaginative animated fantasy comedy-drama sequel to Walt Disney’s classic 1953 cartoon Peter Pan. Though […]