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Piranhas [La paranza dei bambini] **** (2019, Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo) – Movie Review

Francesco Di Napoli stars in co-writer/ director Claudio Giovannesi’s controversial Italian crime drama Piranhas [La paranza dei bambini] (2019) as 15-year-old Nicola, who leads a small gang of teenage boys on motorbikes through the streets […]

Oct, 10

BMX Bandits *** (1983, David Argue, John Ley, Bryan Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 8804

BMX Bandits takes us back to the early Eighties BMX bike craze and a time when Nicole Kidman was a teenager. Where there’s a craze, there’s a movie and here is a bright but daft […]

Aug, 08

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

Cherrybomb *** (2009, Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Kimberley Nixon) – Classic Movie Review 4632

Rupert Grint stars as teenager Malachy who is spending his holidays working at the Titanic leisure centre and enjoying the company of his dangerous drug-dealing best buddy Luke (Robert Sheehan) in the Belfast suburbs in summer. […]

Nov, 10

What Richard Did ***½ (2012, Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton, Gavin Drea, Patrick Gibson, Liana O’Cleirigh, Róisín Murphy) – Movie Review

Jack Reynor stars in his breakout performance as Richard Karlsen, head of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, in director Lenny (Leonard) Abrahamson’s quietly devastating 2012 Irish drama. In the summer between the end […]

Apr, 13

Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927

Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]

Dec, 07

Angels in the Outfield *** (1994, Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – Classic Movie Review 1464

Director William Dear’s 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield is an old-fashioned family comedy drama from Walt Disney, with grumpy old coach George Knox (Danny Glover) supposedly gaining angelic assistance from Al the Boss Angel (Christopher […]

Jul, 23

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