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The Howling ***½ (1981, Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Kevin McCarthy, Slim Pickens, Christopher Stone, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5713

Dee Wallace stars as telly newshound Karen White who recuperates in the wrong place after a rabid attack in a porn cinema – at a Californian hippy community, where of course they are all howling […]

Jul, 05

Southern Comfort **** (1981, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5458

Director Walter Hill’s 1981 man’s man action thriller with Vietnam on its mind is one of this great director’s finest movies. In the screenplay by Hill, producer David Giler and Michael Kane, trigger-happy National Guardsmen […]

May, 15

Blair Witch **½ (2016, James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valorie Curry) – Movie Review

James Allen McCune stars as James, who discovers a video supposedly showing a witch during his sister Heather’s demonic experiences in the Blair Witch woods. Naturally, that compels him to endanger everybody’s lives by heading off there with […]

Sep, 16

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

Pete’s Dragon ***½ (2016, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence) – Movie Review

Disney’s ecologically minded and morally minded remake of its 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon is an odd little film but it is sweet and I liked it. Though warm, friendly, down-home and old fashioned Americana, it is quite […]

Aug, 12

The Terror *** (1963, Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dorothy Neumann, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze) – Classic Movie Review 3873

‘No one will be admitted while the coffin is being opened!’ The Terror (1963) is a semi-celebrated glimpse of the skill and ingenuity of Roger Corman in putting together a project when once again confronted […]

Jun, 16

Throne of Blood ***** [Kumonosu-jô] (1957, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki) – Classic Movie Review 3732

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film masterpiece is a superb and stirring Japanese take on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, topped off with a particularly rousing and exciting climax. It comes complete with a great central performance by […]

May, 21

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