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Around the World in 80 Days ***½ (1989, Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Julia Nickson, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 2454

In director Buzz Kulik’s classy, entertaining 1989 Malta-made miniseries, an ideally cast Pierce Brosnan shines as Jules Verne’s Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle is a total scene-stealer as his French gentleman’s gentleman Passepartout. […]

May, 04

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 […]

May, 04

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days *** (2003, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 767

In director Donald Petrie’s breezy 2003 romcom How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kate Hudson stars as Andie Anderson, a magazine writer who is assigned to write an article about how to lose […]

Jan, 29

Cruel Intentions **** (1999, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon) – Classic Movie Review 301

Written and directed by Roger Kumble in 1999, this is a most enjoyable and satisfying teen erotic thriller version of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos and its movie versions Dangerous […]

Oct, 19

My Fair Lady ***** (1964, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne, Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde White, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Isobel Elsom) – Classic Movie Review 127

Re-creating his London and Broadway stage role, Rex Harrison triumphs again on screen in the part he was born for, the imperious, misogynistic Professor Henry Higgins, in this magnificent evergreen musical version of Pygmalion by […]

Aug, 04

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