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The Magic Box **** (1951, Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Laurence Olivier, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson, Robert Beatty, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 5139

Robert Donat stars as William Friese-Greene, the overlooked British cinema trailblazer, who races against world competitors to invent moving pictures in director John Boulting’s magical British 1951 all-star celebration for the Festival of Britain. Written […]

Mar, 11

The Mosquito Coast **** (1986, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4129

Director Peter Weir’s 1986 adventure movie stars Harrison Ford, who eagerly grasps the nettle of an unusual role for him as an unsympathetic and dangerously obsessive hero – the eccentric and crazed inventor Allie Fox, who […]

Aug, 04

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy **** (1982, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 3957

The light comedy of manners A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy finds writer-director Woody Allen in playful, lyrical mood in 1982, toasting one of his inspirations, Ingmar Bergman, and especially his film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), […]

Jul, 01

Iron Man ***** (2008, Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 3600

Robert Downey Jr is sensationally good as Iron Man in director Jon Favreau’s brilliant 2008 Marvel Comics superhero film – the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway’s […]

Apr, 22

The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]

Aug, 16

Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Selma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 2488

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1999 comedy Western big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series is carelessly handled and drossily scripted. It must have been a near thing, very touch and go, but Will Smith’s charisma and […]

May, 16

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang **** (1968, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 2464

Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s 1968 children’s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his fiancée Truly Scrumptious, who whizz off in their flying, […]

May, 09

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