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Around the World in 80 Days *** (2004, Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cécile De France, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 2453
Director Frank Coraci’s 2004 remake of producer Mike Todd’s 1956 five-Oscar-winning original stars a reasonably well-cast Steve Coogan. He makes a fair stab at his big star role as Jules Verne’s 1899-set Victorian inventor and […]
The Thin Man ***** (1934, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 2262
Director W S Van Dyke’s sparkling 1934 comedy thriller The Thin Man is a bright, bubbly and witty version of the much darker-toned Dashiell Hammett classic detective novel renowned for its brilliantly told masterly mystery […]
Back to the Future ***** (1985, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1933
The popular Family Ties (1982-1989) TV star Michael J Fox vrooms to big screen fame as Marty McFly, a 1985 teenager accidentally whisked back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean time-machine car, invented by his […]
Wild Wild West ** (1999, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek) – Classic Movie Review 1777
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s slack 1999 comedy is a carelessly handled and drossily scripted big-screen version of the 1965-69 TV series The Wild Wild West that gets by on the skills and charms of its stars, as […]
The Nutty Professor ** (1996, Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 1776
Co-writer/director Tom Shadyac’s 1996 reboot of the 1963 hit focuses on Eddie Murphy’s tour-de-force acting in several roles that brought him his long-awaited comeback after a series of flops. This remake of the old Jerry […]
My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270
In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon *** (1942, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey, Kaaren Verne) – Classic Movie Review 988
The 1942 spy thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon is Holmes’s second updated B-movie adventure. Basil Rathbone pretends to be a Nazi spy, adopts various disguises and has to crack a code to […]