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The Iron Giant ****½ (1999, voices of Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel, Harry Connick Jr, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2647

Writer-director Brad Bird’s outstanding, brilliantly imaginative, dark-toned 1999 animated feature is based on The Iron Man children’s story by British poet Ted Hughes. It starts when a nine-year-old boy, Hogarth Hughes (voiced by Eli Marienthal), […]

Jun, 27

South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

Hope Floats ** (1998, Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 1983

Sandra Bullock is likeable and appealing as housewife Birdee Calvert, who, after hearing on TV that her hubby is having an affair with her best friend Connie (Rosanna Arquette), moves back with her daughter Bernice […]

Dec, 20

Dolphin Tale 2 *** (2014, Harry Connick Jr, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble) – Movie Review

All the cast are back from the 2011 original in this polished, enjoyable true-life family drama sequel in which the team who saved dolphin Winter’s life re-assemble after the death of her surrogate mother, the […]

Oct, 02

Memphis Belle *** (1990, Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 1286

Producer David Puttnam and director Michael Caton-Jones’s honourable British-made 1990 film was inspired by Hollywood director William Wyler’s remarkable 1943 World War II documentary The Memphis Belle (made for the War Activities Commission) about a young […]

Jun, 03

Independence Day **** (1996, Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 576

‘I don’t think they flew 90 billion light years to start a fight,’ says pilot Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) when a huge flying saucer appears over Los Angeles one morning. But he’s wrong, and […]

Dec, 27

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