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Gallivant **** (1997, Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting, Gladys Morris, Benji Ming) – Classic Movie Review 2980

Director Andrew Kotting’s splendidly eccentric feature documentary debut is an amusing, inventive and often moving film about journeys, communication and self-expression in what looks like a riposte to director Patrick Keiller’s documentary London (1994). Kotting, his […]

Oct, 12

Hotel Transylvania 2 *** (2015, voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Mel Brooks) – Movie Review

Hotel Transylvania 2 is mild and minor but it is quite pleasant, amusing and fun. Adam Sandler returns as the voice of Dracula, whose daughter Mavis (voice of Selena Gomez) has married human Johnny (Andy Samberg) […]

Sep, 27

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

The Cabin in the Cotton *** (1932, Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan) – Classic Movie Review 2730

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1932 drama stars the young Bette Davis as the minx Southern belle Madge who comes near to ruining nice sharecropper Marvin (Richard Barthelmess), but not before she utters, ‘Ah’d laak to kiss […]

Jul, 22

San Andreas *** (2015, Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Taken with a huge pinch of salt, San Andreas is quite a lot of old-style disaster movie fun, slickly done and fast moving. Dwayne Johnson’s a good hero and very pleasant company for a couple […]

May, 27

Taken ***** (2008, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 2,199

Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his kidnapped estranged daughter, in the stupendous 2008 action thriller Taken. Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA […]

Feb, 22

Men, Women & Children *** (Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler) – Movie Review

Talented director Jason (Juno) Reitman’s comedy drama adapts Chad Kultgen’s novel and takes a smart and satirical aim at the lack of real human communication in the digital age. Fair enough, but it’s an easy target and there […]

Dec, 05

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