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Posts Tagged "Pete Postlethwaite"
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When the Sky Falls **** (2000, Joan Allen, Gerard Flynn, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 3336
Director John Mackenzie’s first-rate 2000 thriller stars Joan Allen as Dublin reporter Sinead Hamilton, who dices with death to pursue the story of an evil crime boss (Gerard Flynn). The admirable Allen effortlessly carries this […]
The Serpent’s Kiss *** (1997, Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 3038
Director Philippe Rousselot’s subtle and intriguing 1997 film stars Ewan McGregor as young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome, who arrives at the remote British stately home of Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) and his wife Juliana […]
DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214
Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]
Treasure Island [Devil’s Treasure] *** (1990, Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2062
Charlton Heston’s son Fraser Clarke Heston writes and directs a satisfyingly faithful, high-quality 1990 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous classic 1883 pirate adventure novel Treasure Island. Charlton Heston stars as Long John Silver, leader of […]
Hamlet *** (1990, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 1294
Co-writer/director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 Shakespeare movie has an unexpected star in Mel Gibson, who personifies the much-tormented Prince of Denmark lustily and honourably, giving a strong, earnest performance. It was a brave thing to do since Gibson’s only […]
Among Giants *** (1998, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton, Lennie James, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 1284
Director Sam Miller’s 1998 film is a likeable, moving and highly charged love story based around the strange lives and dangerous passions of a group of pylon painters on the Yorkshire moors. Pete Postlethwaite plays […]
Amistad **** (1997, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Matthew McConaughey, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 1198
Anthony Hopkins gives as grandstanding turn as former US President John Quincy Adams in this true-life tale of the cargo of newly captured Mende African slaves aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, which ran into […]