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Pay it Forward **** (2000, Haley Joel Osment, Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, James Caviezel, Jay Mohr, Jon Bon Jovi, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Film Review 1167

Director Mimi Leder’s 2000 fine, good-spirited drama stars Haley Joel Osment as 11 and a half year-old Trevor McKinney, the young son of a working, single mom (Helen Hunt), who begins seventh grade at school […]

May, 02

The Kid ***** (1921, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1053

Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1921 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. It ominously starts by declaring itself ‘a comedy with a smile – and perhaps a tear’ but that needn’t put us off too […]

Apr, 05

The Butcher Boy **** (1997, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson, Sinéad O’Connor, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 794

This story of innocence undone comes from the director of Michael Collins, Mona Lisa (1984), The Crying Game (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1998 film The Butcher Boy is one of this fine film-maker’s […]

Feb, 02

Farewell, My Lovely **** (1975, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Spinell, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 740

Director Dick Richards just caught Robert Mitchum, aged 58, while he was still in his world-weary prime in 1975 to play classic private eye Philip Marlowe in this enjoyable, taut and atmospheric remake of Raymond […]

Jan, 25

The Reflecting Skin **** (1990, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 733

Writer-director Philip Ridley’s ultra-disturbing and dazzling 1990 art movie mixes horror, movie poetry and black humour to commanding effect. Jeremy Cooper (aged 10) plays Seth Dove, a fantasising boy in rural America in the 1950s, whose father, […]

Jan, 22

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

The Client **** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, J T Walsh, Will Patton, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 653

Director Joel Schumacher’s tense and exciting 1994 thriller is still the best of the film adaptations of John Grisham’s legal mystery novels so far. Susan Sarandon was Oscar nominated and won the BAFTA Film Award for […]

Jan, 08

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