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Blue Thunder **** (1983, Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Paul Roebling, Joe Santos) – Classic Movie Review 3481

Director John Badham’s 1983 action-adventure crime thriller is a memorable humdinger. Roy Scheider eagerly grabs one of his best Eighties opportunities as Officer Frank Murphy, a Vietnam veteran turned cop, hit by trauma blackouts, who […]

Mar, 20

Lessons in Love [Some Kind of Beautiful] ** (2014, Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Malcolm McDowell) – Movie Review

Pierce Brosnan plays a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his lusty life of roving-eye sexual excess after meeting American sisters Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba in London. Director Tom Vaughan’s romcom, written by Matthew Newman, has […]

Sep, 24

The Raging Moon [Long Ago, Tomorrow] **** (1971, Nanette Newman, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 2429

Co-writer/director Bryan Forbes’s tearjerker 1971 film of Peter Marshall’s novel about a love affair between two handicapped people living in a church-run home for the disabled is moving and involving. It showcases a pair of […]

Apr, 26

The Company *** (2003, Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 1593

Scream’s Neve Campbell (who also co-wrote the original story and co-produced) proves a surprise super dancer in director Robert Altman’s 2003 gossipy account of the day-to-day life of a fictional ballet company (played by members […]

Aug, 25

My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270

In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]

May, 31

Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659

A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]

Jan, 09

O Lucky Man! ***** (1973, Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 474

Malcolm McDowell, who played the hero of If…, stars in Lindsay Anderson’s superb 1973 satirical life allegory about Mick Travis, now involved in the shady work of big business. The 1973 film O Lucky Man! […]

Dec, 05

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