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The Irishman ***** (2019, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci) – Movie Review

Director Martin Scorsese is on fire for his 2019 mob crime thriller The Irishman – and so is his screen-writer Steven Zaillian, carving out a really brilliant, scintillating screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book. Even so, […]

Dec, 20

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ** (1992, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, David Bowie, Miguel Ferrer, Peggy Lipton) – Classic Movie Review 8460

David Lynch’s smart if baffling cinematic prequel to his legendary TV series Twin Peaks (1990) shows the last week in the life of the murdered Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) and her friend (Moira Kelly). It is […]

May, 12

Track 29 ** (1988, Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah Bernhard, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 6617

Unexpectedly, playwright Dennis Potter and director Nicolas Roeg join up for this steamy and interesting but ultimately unsatisfying 1987 Oedipal fantasy mystery drama set in a quiet North Carolina town. Theresa Russell stars as a […]

Jan, 29

Lone Star **** (1996, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Morton, Clifton James, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J Lang, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 5146

Writer-director John Sayles’s beautifully written 1996 murder-mystery neo Western thriller is long, complex and satisfying, and is one of the cult film-maker’s best movies. Sayles’s screenplay tackles the tensions in a Texas border small town. Success is spearheaded by Chris Cooper’s […]

Mar, 13

Little Buddha *** (1993, Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Ruocheng Ying, Alex Wiesendanger, Raju Lal) – Classic Movie Review 4190

Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1993 self-styled final chapter of his ‘Oriental trilogy’ combines a historical biography of Buddha and a lesson in Buddhism with a fictional story about the arrival in Seattle of a deputation of […]

Aug, 17

Reservoir Dogs ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Eddie Bunker, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Chris Penn) – Classic Film Review 361

‘Let’s go to work’ – Ad slogan. The 29-year-old Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 debut movie proved his spectacular breakthrough. With no holds barred, a new star writer-director, what the French call an auteur, was born. Reservoir Dogs is […]

Nov, 03

Cloud Atlas­ ***½ (2012, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess) – Movie Review

‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]

Oct, 09

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