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The Giant Gila Monster ** (1959, Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Ken Knox, Fred Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4411

Director Ray Kellogg’s low-budget 1959 sci-fi monster movie stars Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone,  Shug Fisher (as the comedy relief) and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox. Of course it is pretty bad, but it is a fun Fifties B-movie cult classic. Teens are […]

Sep, 26

Summer Holiday ***½ (1963, Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, The Shadows, Ron Moody, Lionel Murton, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 3960

‘It’s the craziest Four-Way love affair that ever shook up the folks back home!’ Director Peter Yates’s 1963 traditional British wish-fulfilment fantasy musical Summer Holiday is a lively and engaging vehicle for the 22-year-old Cliff […]

Jul, 02

Ratchet and Clank ** (2016, voices of James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Ready to kick some asteroid? Directors Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland’s animated sci-fi video game adaptation is packed full of fast paced action and sarcastic one-liners. But, though it has plenty of energy and is likeable enough, it […]

Apr, 29

Kid Galahad *** (1962, Elvis Presley, Charles Bronson, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 3369

Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]

Feb, 16

The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Jul, 28

This Boy’s Life **** (1993, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 1,434

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s riveting and disturbing 1993 American biographical coming-of-age movie This Boy’s Life stars the amazing actor that was the young Leonardo DiCaprio. He is extraordinarily compelling, quite mesmerising, as Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff, an early […]

Jul, 16

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