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Starring: a menacing Jack Nicholson, a sobbing Shelley Duvall and a little boy with a lot to deal with for his age (Danny Lloyd)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: Jack Torrence takes a job as caretaker of the isolated Overlook hotel over winter with his wife and young son, who Sees Dead People. It’s a wonderful […]
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Starring: A few actors, a few planets
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: A monkey throws a bone into the air. Some music goes dum-dum-dum-dum. Some planets spin. A computer turns nasty. A man dies in a room. Don’t ask questions.
But is it any good?
I first watched A Space Odyssey pre-2001, a whole millenium ago in 1999. […]
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Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Plot: Marshal Will Kane has just gotten hitched and is hanging up his silver star to leave town when he hears that a former nemesis called Frank Miller, who he had arrested five years earlier, has been released from jail and is heading into town […]
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Starring: A great big mechanical shark, some red paint and some fake limbs. Plus Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Sheider and Robert Shaw
Directed by: Steven Spielberg, who was quite a young ‘un at the time
Plot: An American seaside town is harassed by a big shark that can play scary music every time it kills someone.
But is […]
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Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn
Directed by: James Cameron (he of the big ship)
Plot: The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is discovered in deep sleep over half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded […]
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Starring: It’s animated. Voices are courtesy of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Plot: Marlon is overly protective of his only son Nemo the clownfish after a shark gobbles up the rest of his family. But Nemo, defiantly venturing out too far one day, lands in a Sydney dentist’s fish […]
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Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Directed by: Woody Allen
Plot:Alvy Singer, a neurotic and geeky New York comedian who acts coincidentally like Woody Allen, falls in love with ditsy nightclub singer Annie Hall. They bicker a lot and have therapy.
But is it any good?
Annie Hall was comedian Woody Allen’s breakthrough movie. It won four Oscars - […]
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Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Brendan Gleeson
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Plot: Scotsman William Wallace, with long, flowing locks and a loud roar, unites his 13th-century countrymen to overthrow English rule.
But is it any good?
I hadn’t felt the need to see Braveheart before last night. But a friend of a friend earnestly pressed the DVD into […]
