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State of Grace *** (1990, Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman) – Classic Movie Review 7667

Powerhouse acting from Sean Penn, Gary Oldman and especially Ed Harris distinguishes director Phil Joanou’s 1990 State of Grace, a saga of Irish gangsters in New York facing a barrel-load of trouble from the Mafia, […]

Oct, 14 · in Reviews

State of Siege [État de siège] **** (1972, Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 7666

‘A powder keg of dynamite!’ Co-writer/ director Costa-Gavras’s challenging, committed and typically partisan film State of Siege [État de siège] (1972) is an original scenario about the political kidnapping and killing of undercover American CIA […]

Oct, 14 · in Reviews

Blindspotting **** (2018, Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar) – Movie Review

Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal write and star in the excellent bristling comedy crime drama Blindspotting as Collin and Miles, a couple of long-time best buddies, working as movers in the rapidly gentrifying Bay Area […]

Oct, 14

Thunder Road **** (2018, Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jim Cummings also stars brilliantly in the clever, charming and heartfelt Thunder Road (2018) as police officer Jim Arnaud, who goes into a personal meltdown after his divorce and the death of his mother, leading to […]

Oct, 14

Girl **** (2018, Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart) – Movie Review

Victor Polster is sensational as the 15-year-old Lara, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina, in co-writer/ director Lukas Dhont’s Girl (2018). You could put this another way, Victor Polster is sensational as […]

Oct, 14

The Front Runner *** (2018, Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J K Simmons, Kaitlyn Dever, Sara Paxton, Alfred Molina) – Movie Review

American Senator Gary Hart was an idiot. At the crucial climax to his 1988 presidential campaign in which he is The Front Runner, the newspapers (The Miami Herald) catch him (after a tip-off) in an extra-marital love […]

Oct, 14

First Man ** (2018, Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Olivia Hamilton) – Movie Review

‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’ How familiar are those words! How familiar is this story! Director Damien Chazelle’s nostalgic biopic First Man retells the story the life of the […]

Oct, 14

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