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Mission: Impossible II *** (2000, Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1290

Director John Woo’s costly (£125million) 2000 sequel to the smash-hit 1996 original sees Tom Cruise return as IMF secret agent Ethan Hunt, who delivers more flashy, scrappy high-octane action in this second brain-in-neutral, edge-of-seat blockbuster. […]

Jun, 04

Nixon *** (1995, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Joan Allen, Powers Booth, Ed Harris, E G Marshall, David Paymer, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J T Walsh, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 1216

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone tackles the tarnished President Richard Nixon in his fascinating but flawed 1995 biopic and real-life drama. In an idiosyncratic portrait, Nixon is shown as a foul-mouthed, emotionally crippled drunkard. Anthony Hopkins, a […]

May, 15

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 […]

May, 10

Noah ** (2014, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth) – Movie Review

In the Beginning, back in 1966, there was a much derided movie called The Bible… In the Beginning, directed by the great John Huston, and starring himself as old Noah A contemporary review said: ‘A bad […]

Apr, 03

The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan […]

Apr, 01

The Lion in Winter ***** (1968, Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Jane Merrow, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry) – Classic Film Review 1000

Director Anthony Harvey’s superb, stirring, sterling triple-Oscar-winning 1968 classic costume period drama is the cat-fighting story of duelling divas at Christmas at the English court. It won Oscars for Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and […]

Mar, 26

Alexander ** (2004, Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer) – Bad Movie 3

Fortune normally favours the bold, maybe, but not here. Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 2004 classical adventure epic is certainly brave and ambitious but it is also turgid and laughable. An absurdly miscast Colin Farrell is too […]

Mar, 23

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