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The Maze Runner *** (2014, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review
The 23-year-old TV Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien plays the hero Thomas, who emerges into a community of about 60 teenage boys after his memory is erased and he wakes up in an elevator. Director Wes […]
Gone Girl ***** (2014, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon) – Movie Review
Director David Fincher’s excellent, super-edgy thriller is continually engrossing and surprising. Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, the husband who comes home to find his wife is missing, Rosamund Pike as the troubled wife and Kim Dickens as […]
A Walk Among the Tombstones *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens) – Movie Review
Liam Neeson (aged 62) may be too Irish, and perhaps a shade too old too, to play Philip Marlowe, which he’d otherwise be ideal for. But he’s found a decent substitute in private investigator Matthew ‘Matt’ […]
Trent’s Last Case ***½ (1952, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum) Classic Movie Review 1675
Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or […]
The Boxtrolls **** (2014, voices Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost) – Movie Review
Cute and deliciously quirky animation in which Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright), a young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors, tries to save his friends from the evil exterminator Archibald Snatcher. It remains winsome and […]
The Sailor from Gibraltar *** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 1644
Jeanne Moreau stars as nymphomaniac mysterious widow Anna, who wanders the waves in search of her dreamboat sailor she had known many years before. She comes across troubled British couple Alan and his girlfriend Sheila (Ian […]
Rockets Galore! *** (1958, Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, Ronnie Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 1642
Co-producer/ director Michael Relph’s belated 1958 sequel to the 1949 hit Whisky Galore! is friendly, pleasant and amusing, but not always sparkling and sometimes sluggish. Nice though it is, it doesn’t have quite the same spark […]