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Spotlight **** (2015, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review

Spotlight is tense, urgent and dynamic, with great performances and a good flavour of the newsroom. Co-writer / director Tom McCarthy urgently tells the true story of how the Boston Globe’s tenacious Spotlight team of […]

Jan, 15

Southpaw *** (2015, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Oona Laurence, 10 Cent, Naomie Harris, Miguel Gomez, Beau Knapp) – Movie Review

Jake Gyllenhaal lost 30lb to play his role in last year’s outstanding Nightcrawler, and now he’s added 45lb of muscle to play boxer Billy Hope in director Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie. Jake spent six hours a […]

Jul, 23

The Hot Chick ** (2002, Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams, Eric Christian Olsen, Matthew Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 1967

Co-writer/director Tom Brady’s crude and limp 2002 body-swap fantasy comedy stars Rob Schneider as a crook called Clive Maxtone, who trades places with a hot high-school cheerleader, Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams). She’s a sexy and […]

Dec, 16

A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review

In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]

Sep, 11

Mean Girls **** (2004, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Lacey Chabert) – Classic Movie Review 967

Lindsay Lohan hits the jackpot this time in director Mark S Waters’s stingingly witty 2004 teen movie. Starting at a new school, 16-year-old Cady Heron (Lohan) soon joins The Plastics, the A-list clan clique of queen bitches. […]

Mar, 22

About Time *** (2013, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Margot Robbie, Tom Hollander) – Movie Review

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a nice middle-class 21-year-old English lad, Tim, who, the night after another bad New Year party at his idyllic family home in Cornwall, is told a big fat, thrilling secret by his […]

Sep, 06

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