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Travels with My Aunt ** (1972, Maggie Smith, Alex McCowen, Lou Gossett Jr, Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 4039

Director George Cukor’s 1972 comedy drama stars Maggie Smith as Dotty Aunt Augusta Bertram, who takes her prim nephew Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen), a buttoned-up English bank manager, on an eccentric trip to Graham Greeneland, with […]

Jul, 18

Help! ***** (1965, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 3951

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Immediately following up his hit A Hard Day’s Night (1963), director Richard Lester again captures much of the Beatles’ charisma and works on exploring something of what makes them tick in this funny, freewheeling, fanciful musical […]

Jun, 30

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle ** (2003, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, John Cleese, Bernie Mac, Rodrigo Santoro) – Classic Movie Review 2913

The angelic babes are back in director McG’s 2003 sequel to his 2000 Charlie’s Angels, larking around again to our hearts content as Charlie’s girls in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. This frothy follow-up starts where […]

Sep, 16

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

The Ring *** (2002, Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 2295

The 2002 horror movie The Ring stars Naomi Watts as journalist Rachel Keller who, while probing the death of her friend’s child, sees a videotape that brings death within a week to all who watch […]

Mar, 22

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ***** (2003, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 34

Elrond (Hugo Weaving): ‘I give hope to Men.’ Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen): ‘I keep none for myself.’ The stupendous battle scenes are again the main event in Peter Jackson’s great final instalment of the must-see the […]

Jul, 08

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ***** (2002, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill, Brad Dourif, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 33

The 2002 middle film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers, is a must-see treat for all those following J R Tolkien’s great adventure, set in a time of turmoil in the […]

Jul, 08

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