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The Super Cops *** (1974, Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier) – Classic Movie Review 10,020

Director Gordon Parks’s 1974 true story crime action thriller The Super Cops is a hard-hitting buddy-buddy cop movie with a good sense of pace, place and humour. Ron Leibman and David Selby pack punch as […]

Jul, 09

Super Mario Bros ** (1993, Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fiona Shaw, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 10,019

Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel’s 1993 family adventure comedy Super Mario Bros is an ingenious but often dull film of the Nintendo video game, with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario Mario and […]

Jul, 09

Stay Tuned * (1992, John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,018

Director Peter Hyams’s weary 1992 special-effects comedy Stay Tuned stars John Ritter and Pam Dawber as Roy and Helen Knable, parents of a couple of teenagers, Darryl and Diane (David Tom, Heather McComb), who are […]

Jul, 09

The Missionary *** (1982, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Michael Hordern, Denholm Elliott, Graham Crowden, Phoebe Nicholls, Roland Culver, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 10,017

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1982 film The Missionary stars, and is written and produced by, Michael Palin, and finds room for a treasure trove of Brit performers. Palin’s The Missionary is a fairly funny comedy, in […]

Jul, 08

Mister Jerico *** (1970, Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 10,016

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1970 adventure thriller Mister Jericho stars Patrick Macnee, who is on good form as conman Mister Dudley Jericho, who sets out to Malta to grab a fabled diamond from ultra-rich corrupt millionaire Victor […]

Jul, 08

Mister Johnson *** (1990, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi) – Classic Movie Review 10,014

In director Bruce Beresford’s affecting, warm-hearted, carefully made 1990 personal drama of a clash of cultures Mister Johnson, Pierce Brosnan gives a fine turn as Harry Rudbeck, the friend of Mister Johnson (Maynard Eziashi), a […]

Jul, 08

For the Love of Ada ** (1972, Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst, Arthur English) – Classic Movie Review 10,015

Director Ronnie Baxter’s 1972 senior citizens comedy For the Love of Ada is a warm-hearted but fairly feeble TV spin-off film, which tries to open out an already fairly feeble TV series that entirely motors […]

Jul, 08

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