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Cats ** (2019, Francesca Hayward, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson) – Movie Review
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 […]
Ford v Ferrari [Le Mans 66] *** (2019, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review
Matt Damon and Christian Bale do very well indeed in reliable, stalwart star turns as gifted American car designer Carroll Shelby and brilliant British driver Ken Miles, who battle to build a revolutionary racing car […]
Castaway ** (1986, Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 9074
Nicolas Roeg’s 1986 film Castaway stars Oliver Reed as middle-aged Englishman Gerald Kingsland, who puts an advert in a London magazine for a companion/ wife to take to a tropical desert island for a year […]
Tiger in the Smoke **** (1956, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 9024
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]
I Wanted Wings ** (1941, Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore, Harry Davenpor) – Classic Movie Review 8786
Veronica Lake stars as Sally Vaughn, who vamps her way into the affections of three US Army Air Corps air cadets – wealthy playboy Jeff Young (Ray Milland), college jock Al Ludlow (William Holden) and […]
Pet Sematary **** (2019, Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence) – Movie Review
Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s reworking of the Stephen King novel and 1989 movie Pet Sematary is a surprisingly effective and classy horror movie. All about death, it is really dark, morbid and nasty, […]
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall *** (1973, Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 7709
‘After Young Winston – Young Milligan!’ Director Norman Cohen’s sometimes amusing 1973 comedy Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is based on the entertaining novel of the great and good legendary comic Spike Milligan. […]