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Posts Tagged "1960s"

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Dirty Deeds **½ (2003, Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, John Goodman, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 4864

Bryan Brown’s crime boss Barry Ryan tackles his angry wife Sharon (Toni Collette), a bent cop named Detective Sergeant Ray Murphy (Sam Neill) and a nasty US crook called Tony Testano (John Goodman) in writer-director […]

Jan, 08

Nowhere Boy **** (2009, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond) – Classic Movie Review 4419

Aaron Johnson (from 2008’s Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) captures the young John Lennon perfectly in director Sam Taylor-Wood’s inspired 2009 early-years biopic that reveals him as a troubled bunny.   Lennon is shown as desperately […]

Sep, 26

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years **** (2016) – Movie Review

Director Ron Howard’s delicious documentary compilation of footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles’ 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966 is fab – obviously. A labour of love, it features no personal lowdown stuff or […]

Sep, 16

M Butterfly ** (1993, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon) – Classic Movie Review 4366

Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]

Sep, 15

Mississippi Burning **** (1988, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 4146

Director Alan Parker’s burning 1988 thriller stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents with greatly conflicting styles investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South […]

Aug, 09

Girl, Interrupted **** (1999, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto) – Classic Movie Review 3909

Director James Mangold’s excellent biographical drama is based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the Sixties. It is a powerful, harrowing movie, along the lines of One […]

Jun, 25

Dead Presidents ** (1995, Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez) – Classic Movie Review 3814

Producer-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes’s 1995 action crime thriller is set in The Bronx in the late Sixties. Three African American Vietnam veterans, ignored and neglected by society, plan to steal withdrawn dollar bills […]

Jun, 06

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