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The Last Temptation of Christ *** (1988, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 7034

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1988 movie about the life of Jesus Christ is one of the most controversial films of the Eighties, and it is a daring, difficult and important work. It was greeted, expectedly, mainly […]

May, 10

My House in Umbria *** (2003, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Benno Fürmann, Emmy Clarke, Chris Cooper, Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall, Libero De Rienzo) – Classic Movie Review 4360

Maggie Smith stars as romantic novelist Mrs Delahunty, who invites her fellow survivors of a terrorist train blast to convalesce in her Italian villa: the old British General (Ronnie Barker), the young German man Werner (Benno Fürmann) and […]

Sep, 13

Overboard **** (1987, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 4057

At the risk of going overboard, director Garry Marshall’s sparkling 1987 comedy is one of Goldie Hawn’s funniest movies. The star lights up the screen with her comic charisma as an arrogant rich bitch who […]

Jul, 20

Alice in Wonderland **** (1933, Cary Grant, W C Fields, Gary Cooper, Charlotte Henry) – Classic Movie Review 1418

‘I’ve often seen a cat without a grin – but a grin without a cat!’ – Alice. Three cheers for director Norman Z McLeod’s all-star, high-budget classic 1933 movie version of the two Lewis Carroll […]

Jul, 12

Greenberg **** (2010, Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifans) – Classic Movie Review 814

Ben Stiller does well in a straightish role as 40ish layabout Roger Greenberg, who is making a five-course banquet out of his middle-age crisis, in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s intelligent and entertaining, if rather depressingly sad, bitter-sweet […]

Feb, 08

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