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Enemy at the Gates **** (2001, Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Film Review 841

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s compelling 2001 film tells the persistently small-scale, intimate wartime story of a Russian sniper Vassili (Jude Law) and a German marksman major Konig (Ed Harris) playing a lethal game of cat and […]

Feb, 18

Brazil ***** (1985, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Jim Broadbent, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 836

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling 1985 movie provides an ambitious, horrifying vision of a dystopian world in the style of George Orwell’s novel 1984, predicting and condemning a bizarrely convoluted and inefficient state. Gilliam’s nightmarish vision makes for […]

Feb, 16

A Room for Romeo Brass **** (1998, Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine, Vicky McClure, Frank Harper, Julia Ford, James Higgins, Ladene Hall, Bob Hoskins, Shane Meadows) – Classic Film Review 481

Co-writer-director Shane Meadows’s 1998 film reunites him with co-writer Paul Fraser and cinematographer Ashley Rowe, after their success with 1997’s boxing club movie Twenty Four Seven. The friendship of 12-year-old best mates Romeo Brass and […]

Dec, 07

Twenty Four Seven ***½ (1997, Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum) – Classic Film Review 479

Bob Hoskins enjoys himself enormously in a tailor-made role as Alan Darcy, an inspired visionary who sets up a boxing club for a bleak English Midlands town’s dissolute youth. His diaries chart the lads’ comic […]

Dec, 07

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