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Posts Tagged "based on tv series"
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That’s Your Funeral *** (1972, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley, David Battley) – Classic Movie Review 5082
Director John Robins’s 1972 British comedy is a drolly amusing movie spinoff from the TV sitcom of 1971, effectively exploiting both the black comedy inherent in the funerals business and its elderly stars’ comic brilliance. […]
Porridge [Doing Time] ***½ (1979, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Vaughan, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4772
Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s funny 1979 film prison comedy Porridge [Doing Time] is a most entertaining, above-par transfer of the much-loved Seventies BBC TV sitcom about the inmates and warders of HM Slade Prison in […]
Fabian of the Yard *** (1954, Bruce Seton, Sarah Churchill, Richard Pearson, Gwen Cherrell, Diana Beaumont, Margaret Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4595
Director Edward Thompson and co-director/ producer Antony Beauchamp’s 1954 British police procedural thriller stars Bruce Seton as the real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Robert Fabian. Taken from Fabian’s autobiographical book of memoirs, this trio of stories from […]
Star Trek Beyond ***½ (2016, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Idris Elba) – Movie Review
The 13th Star Trek movie is the third reboot movie, and the first without its mastermind as director, J J Abrams, who has headed off to Star Wars. It is directed by action director Justin Lin, maker […]
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas ** (2000, Mark Addy, Kristen Johnston, Stephen Baldwin, Joan Collins, Ann-Margret, Jane Krakowski, Alan Cumming, Thomas Gibson, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 3899
Britain’s Mark Addy takes over from John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, who travels to Rock Vegas where his future wife Wilma Slaghoople is pursued by playboy Chip Rockefeller (Thomas Gibson), in this soppy but happy 2000 […]
Lost in Space *** (1998, Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3700
The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ** (2015, Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant, Jared Harris, Elizabeth Debicki) – Movie Review
UNCLE? My giddy aunt! Henry Cavill stars as CIA agent Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer plays KGB operative Illya Kuryakin, who after a lot of fighting one another in early 1960s Berlin, end up working […]