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Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] *** (2021, Emil von Schönfels, Mekyas Mulugeta, Katharina Behrens) – Classic Movie Review 12,518

Emil von Schönfels stars in director Ilker Çatak’s involving 2021 coming-of-age film Stambul Garden [Räuberhände] as German teenage boy Janik, whose friendship with his best friend Samuel (Mekyas Mulugeta) is sorely tested by a crazy, […]

May, 26

Animals *** (2019, Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy, Amy Molloy) – Movie Review

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat star in the 2019 comedy drama Animals as Laura and Tyler, wild hedonistic, super-close best friends, who have enjoyed a decade of carefree times in Dublin with endless happy days […]

Aug, 02

Women in Love **** (1969, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 5455

Director Ken Russell’s safe and successful 1969 transition to the movies of D H Lawrence’s great novel Women in Love stars Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her part as Gudrun Brangwen. The […]

May, 14

Miss You Already **½ (2015, Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Jacqueline Bisset) Movie Review

A warm-hearted romantic comedy drama about a woman dying of cancer? Well that’s a bit of a hard sell. There are plenty of laughs in the film, sometimes polished ones, sometimes crudely constructed ones, but overall […]

Sep, 24

Lush Life *** (1993, Jeff Goldblum, Forest Whitaker, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 2893

Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as life-long best buddies who play jazz in New York clubs in writer-director Michael Elias’s atmospheric, stirring, emotion-packed 1993 drama, as seen though clouds of alcohol and cigarette smoke. […]

Sep, 08

Love, Rosie *** (2014, Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke) – Movie Review

Lily Collins and Sam Claflin star as Rosie and Alex, who have been best friends since they were five. So they couldn’t possibly be a right fit in love for one another, could they? Christian Cooke also […]

Jun, 11

The Falling **** (2014, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi) – Movie Review

The Falling is a unique and special British movie, teasing and haunting. Writer-director Carol Morley’s film is set in a well-constructed 1969 atmosphere at a strict English girls’ school where among the pupils are a couple of […]

Apr, 24

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