Reviews of Classic and Modern Movies in a Flash!
Based on the classic fairytale and set to the stunning music of Tchaikovsky, this animated feature tells the story of an innocent princess and the vengeful fairy who curses her to an eternal sleep, that can only be broken by ‘true loves kiss’.
This epic film took an unheard of (at the time) 6 years and 6 million dollars to make, but was well worth it.
1hr. 15min.
Gregory Peck stars in this tense western as a man chasing a group of thieves who raped and killed his wife. He guns them down one by one until the startling revelation that leaves him to question his own morality. A very young Joan Collins costars.
1hr. 38min.
This film stars Burt Lancaster as a man on the edge of being a hopeless drunk, David Niven as an English gentleman who’s made a pretend past for himself, Deborah Kerr as a shy woman dominated by her mother and Wendy Hiller as the owner of the inn where all of these characters abide. Rita Hayworth, a woman with her own problems, arrives to stir things up.
1hr. 58min.
Released in 1957, this movie depicts Elvis Presley as a construction worker, who while trying to defend a woman in a bar, accidentally kills a man. While in prison a fellow inmate helps him discover his singing talent, that leads him into stardom on his release. But time in the Big House has made him bitter and unscrupulous.
Containing one of his most famous dance numbers, it is also considered to be Elvis’s best film.
1hr. 36min.