Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, […]
Melanie Griffith stars in writer-director David Seltzer’s hypnotically awful 1992 World War Two-set romantic thriller drama Shining Through as Linda Voss, gets a job at a New York law firm and later becomes a spy […]
Director Frank Borzage’s polished 1938 The Shining Hour is a shining hour or so (76 minutes, actually) of well-acted melodrama as a rich, upper-class farmer Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas) takes his new nightclub dancing hoofer […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1931 adventure movie Trader Horn stars Harry Carey Sr as explorer Aloysius ‘Trader’ Horn, who meets danger and understandably hostile locals in the jungle of darkest Africa of the […]
J J Abrams’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019) brings the 40-year saga to a lame and limping end in the final chapter. It feels reheated and lukewarm. In the movies, […]
Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1973 Penny Gold has a very friendly cast to recommend it, but it is a creaky old Seventies British thriller about a dead woman’s evil twin sister (Francesca Annis) being involved in a […]
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