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Avalanche * (1978, Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 9748

Director Corey Allen’s 1978 action drama Avalanche is a minor, just passable disaster movie, unexpectedly from producer Roger Corman, made and distributed by New World Pictures, with a six million-ton avalanche spelling doom for trippers at […]

May, 11

Club Paradise *** (1986, Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis) – Classic Movie Review 7662

Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy and Adolph Caesar are in the tasty star line-up for director Harold Ramis’s 1986 comedy Club Paradise about a Chicago firefighter called Jack Monike (Williams) who […]

Oct, 11

Highway Dragnet ** (1954, Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley) – Classic Movie Review 4977

Director Nathan Juran’s 1954 film noir thriller stars Richard Conte as James Henry, a US Marine hitch-hiker, a Korean War veteran, who is picked up by driving freelance magazine fashion photographer Mrs. Cummings (Joan Bennett) […]

Feb, 01

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer * (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 3512

Director Danny Cannon’s grim 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an even more humourless, even more mechanical slasher movie sequel to the iffy 1997 hit I Know What You […]

Apr, 02

Fun in Acapulco ** (1963, Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Paul Lukas, Alejandro Rey, Elsa Cárdenas) – Classic Movie Review 2627

Director Richard Thorpe delivers a fair fun 1963 vehicle for Elvis Presley, who stars as Mike Windgren, a circus trapeze artist high-flyer with a fear of heights. So, with the help of little boy Raoul […]

Jun, 22

Scooby-Doo *** (2000, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar) – Classic Movie Review 1437

Scooby-Doo, where are you? Oh, there you are, going barking mad as a big-screen cartoon character in an amiably daft live-action teen movie adventure, in which the Mystery Inc gang investigate strange goings on at an […]

Jul, 16

Evil Under the Sun *** (1982, Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, James Mason, Diana Rigg, Nicholas Clay, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley) – Classic Movie Review 1,305

Evil Under the Sun (1982): Hotelier Maggie Smith’s star guest is a bitchy actress (Diana Rigg) everyone wants to kill – for refusing to do a stage show, for stopping a book, or for having […]

Jun, 07

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