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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

The Fixer *** (1968, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, Jack Gilford, Elizabeth Hartman, Carol White, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 4282

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1968 movie of Bernard Malamud’s much admired novel is forceful and well meaning. But is also long, slow-moving and very hard going and was therefore unsurprisingly not popular at the box office. However, it […]

Sep, 01

Route Irish **** (2010, Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Geoff Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3968

Ken Loach’s excitingly labyrinthine and darkly harrowing revenge and conspiracy thriller has plenty of the viscerally powerful impact we expect of the director. An excellently cast Mark Womack relishes a stonking star role as ex-soldier […]

Jul, 04

Topper ***** (1937, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 3671

Norman Z McLeod directs the sparkling 1937 vintage supernatural fantasy comedy classic Topper brightly, expertly and quite delicately and delightfully, with the help of a delicious screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch and Eddie Moran, […]

May, 07

Five Easy Pieces ***** (1970, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, William Challee, Ralph Waite) – Classic Movie Review 2877

Co-story-writer/producer/director Bob Rafelson’s greatly admired 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is stupendous as Robert Eroica Dupea, a middle-class musician drop-out who, along […]

Sep, 03

Inside Out **** (2015, voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Richard Kind, Kaitlyn Dias) – Movie Review

After a weaker spell, Pixar comes back strongly with a unique coming-of-age story set in the mind of an 11-year-old girl called Riley, with the main characters the five emotions that control her – Joy […]

Jul, 23

Listen Up Philip **** (2014, Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter) – Movie Review

Jason Schwartzman triumphs over a difficult-to-play, unsympathetic role as the angry, arrogant, conceited writer Philip, awaiting the publication of his second novel. His relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss) is deteriorating, and he refuses […]

Jun, 04

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