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Pleasantville **** (1998, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon) – Classic Movie Review 678

Writer-director Gary Ross’s 1998 fantasy comedy is an extremely pleasant, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted comic fable about a boy David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) who are magicked into a TV channel that […]

Jan, 12

Ed Wood ***** (1994, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray) – Classic Movie Review 98

‘Ed, this isn’t the real world. You’ve surrounded yourself with a bunch of weirdoes!’ – Ed Wood’s girlfriend Dolores Fuller. In this sensationally good 1994 film, Johnny Depp is at his most winning as the […]

Jul, 28

Vertigo ***** (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes) – Classic Movie Review 48

Alfred Hitchcock’s dizzying, dazzling, brilliant 1958 study in romantic obsession Vertigo focuses on James Stewart as John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson, a troubled police detective who has to resign the force because of his crippling vertigo (acrophobia, […]

Jul, 14

The Talented Mr Ripley ****½ (1999, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Jack Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 41

With more subtlety, more noir, and an entirely different ending, the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley would be 100% brilliant. As it is, it’s still quite entrancing and mesmerising, with a dazzling cast pitch […]

Jul, 10

LA Confidential ***** (1997, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 15

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]

Jul, 03

The Godfather: Part II ***** (1974, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg, Michael V Gazzo, Troy Donahue, G D Spradlin, Richard Bright, Morgana King) – Classic Movie Review 3

‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Part II of The Godfather starts in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 1958, with the tormented Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) now head of the ‘family’, having inherited the […]

Jun, 24

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