Movie Reviews (Page 76)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Seventh Seal is the foundational arthouse film and one of the great works of the twentieth century. Max von Sydow plays Antonius Block, a knight returning from the Crusades to a Sweden in the grip of the Black Death.

Black Death (2010)

Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…

Sergeant York (1941)

Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Clash of the Titans is Ray Harryhausen's final film and his farewell to the medium he helped invent. Judi Bowker plays Andromeda.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is the second Harryhausen Sinbad film and the last great Harryhausen fantasy adventure. John Phillip Law plays Sinbad.

Mysterious Island (1961)

Mysterious Island is the Harryhausen adaptation of Jules Verne. The film adapts Verne's 1874-1875 novel L'Île mystérieuse, with substantial creative liberty.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Jason and the Argonauts is Ray Harryhausen's masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann composed the score in his fourth and final collaboration with Harryhausen.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad.

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

20 Million Miles to Earth is the Harryhausen film set in Italy. William Hopper plays Colonel Robert Calder, an astronaut.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is the film that invented the modern atomic-age monster movie. The third act involves the rhedosaurus, a fictional dinosaur, attacking lower Manhattan and eventually being killed at Coney Island.

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Mighty Joe Young is the film where Ray Harryhausen learned what he would spend the rest of his career doing. Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion pioneer who had created King Kong in 1933, was the credited animator.

Coraline (2009)

The film adapts Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. The film cost approximately sixty million dollars and made one hundred and twenty-five million worldwide.

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