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Call Me by Your Name ***** (2017, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel) – Movie Review

Director Luca Guadagnino’s gloriously, unashamedly, outrageously romantic gay movie coming-of-age tale of first love Call Me by Your Name is based on André Aciman’s acclaimed debut novel published in 2007. This is one heck of […]

Oct, 09

Purple Rain *** (1984, Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day) – Classic Movie Review 3598

Co-writer/director Albert Magnoli’s 1984 Oscar-winning musical movie stars Prince, then 24 and making his first film. Prince won an Oscar, a Brit award for Best Soundtrack and a Grammy for Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a […]

Apr, 22

Performance ***** (1970, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton) – Classic Movie Review 2,990

Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s clever 1970 gender-bender teaser film Performance is a stunning eye-opener and turned out to be a milestone of British cinema with its provocative mix of perverted sex and violence. James […]

Oct, 18

The Grapes of Wrath ***** (1940, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 1825

Best Director John Ford and Best Supporting Actress Jane Darwell both won essential Oscars for this stupendous 1940 film of the John Steinbeck story about the odyssey of the Joads. They are a poor Oklahoma farming […]

Nov, 10

Garden State *** (2004, Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman) – Classic Movie Review 1498

Writer-director Zach Braff’s appealingly offbeat 2004 comedy is a clear labour of love. Braff also stars quietly troubled young drug-taking LA TV actor Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman, who returns  home to the Garden State for his mother’s […]

Jul, 30

The Wizard of Oz ***** (1939, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 14

The 17-year-old Judy Garland gives a knockout, wizard performance in the 1939 gem The Wizard of Oz as the Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who sprinkles a special kind of fairy dust on her magical journey […]

Jul, 03

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