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White Man’s Burden ** (1995, John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery) – Classic Movie Review 4947

Writer-director Desmond Nakano’s provocative 1995 drama is set in an alternative America where the blacks belong to the social elite and the whites inhabit inner city ghettos. It stars John Travolta as Louis Pinnock, a white blue-collar […]

Jan, 27

Soylent Green ***** (1973, Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4041

Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters and Paula Kelly head the strong cast for director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, intelligent and well-crafted 1973 dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green. Its story […]

Jul, 18

The Divergent Series: Allegiant ***½ (2016, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Jeff Daniels, Zoë Kravitz, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Bill Skarsgård, Jonny Weston, Maggie Q, Octavia Spencer) – Movie Review

The third instalment of the blockbuster franchise shows the Divergent series getting better and better. With Veronica Roth’s third series novel Allegiant split into two movies – the fourth franchise to do so, after Harry Potter, The […]

Mar, 07

Alphaville ***** (1965, Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 3079

Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s highly esteemed 1965 French classic Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution was the winner of the Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival. This is a cautionary tale. Eddie Constantine […]

Nov, 22

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review

The Hunger Games races to its conclusion in the fast-paced, exciting climax, crisply made and sharply edited by director Francis Lawrence from its original two hours and 51 minutes two hours and 17 minutes. Peter Craig […]

Nov, 19

Mad Max **** (1979, Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley) – Classic Movie Review 2468

Director George Miller’s smart 1979 cult favourite Australian sci-fi action thriller Mad Max stars the magnetic young Mel Gibson, who heads for superstardom in this low-budget gang orientated road movie, set in a post-World War […]

May, 10

Insurgent *** (2015, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Jai Courtney, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Tough as nails but desperately troubled, Shailene Woodley is back as the Divergent (2014) heroine Tris in a future that separates people into factions – Abnegation for selflessness, Amity for the peaceful, Candour for the honest, […]

Mar, 19

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