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The Program *** (2015, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Chris O’Dowd, Dustin Hoffman) – Movie Review

Ben Foster is good as cyclist Lance Armstrong, who never stops cycling – or lying, apparently. ‘I have never tested positive’, he says positively as he categorically denies drug-taking over and over again. Foster is […]

Oct, 15

St Vincent **** (2014, Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Jaeden Lieberher, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Bill Murray finds the perfect role for his grouchy persona in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic Vietnam war veteran who finds himself living next door to a new neighbour, overworked, just divorced single parent Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), and her […]

Dec, 04

Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872

Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]

Nov, 23

Calvary (2014, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review

Calvary is a mixed blessing. On the one hand we have Brendan Gleeson’s magnificent, layered, textured performance as an Irish priest, Father James Lavelle, an unequivocally good, wise man in a flawed, mad world full of idiots. We […]

Apr, 09

Cuban Fury – Film Review

Nick Frost stars as Bruce Garrett, a former salsa prodigy whose career was ruined by a freakish bullying incident at the age of 13. Now, 22 years later, Bruce is tubby and unloved. But the arrival of Julia […]

Feb, 10

The Boat That Rocked [Pirate Radio] **** (2009, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Rowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 798

A lot was expected of this extremely likeable and funny 2009 comedy from writer-director Richard Curtis, the laugh mastermind behind the scripts of Blackadder, Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley for TV and Four […]

Feb, 04

Thor: The Dark World **** (2013, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård) – Movie Review

‘I gave you my word, that I would return.’ – Thor. With ads and premieres everywhere, it won’t have escaped your attention that the new superhero tale from Disney-owned Marvel Studios is the sequel to […]

Oct, 29

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