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Home Alone **** (1990, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 554

The 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin turns on the ingratiating charm as Kevin McCallister, a cute but cheeky, rowdy and rumbustious eight-year-old, in writer-producer John Hughes’s 1990 mega-moneymaker Home Alone. It has a simple but very effective, […]

Dec, 20

The Snowman ***** (1982, voice of David Bowie, Raymond Briggs) – Classic Movie Review 550

The famous must-see 1982 animated adventure film The Snowman is about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve. The haunting song ‘Walking in the Air’ is sung by Peter Auty. Apart […]

Dec, 20

The Polar Express **** (2004, Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter) – Classic Movie Review 498

A little boy gets a ticket to ride aboard a magical steam train to meet Santa at his home in the North Pole on Christmas Eve, in the 2004 Christmas treat The Polar Express, the […]

Dec, 10

Young and Innocent [The Girl Was Young] **** (1937, Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, Basil Radford, George Curzon) – Classic Movie Review 462

In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]

Dec, 01

Godsend *** (2004, Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright) – Classic Movie Review 423

First, take a great idea: a devilish doctor confronts distraught parents at the funeral of their eight-year-old son killed in a road accident, makes an offer they can’t refuse to clone the boy. They accept […]

Nov, 18

The Selfish Giant **** (2013, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder) – Movie Review

Hailed as one of 2013’s best British films, this is a bleak and depressing Brit social realist movie, set around the desolate Bradford outskirts. This is a god-forsaken place, where appallingly ugly, semi-declined housing estates back on […]

Oct, 24

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ***** (1982, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 303

Steven Spielberg’s magical 1982 sci-fi movie about a troubled small boy called Elliott (Henry Thomas) who befriends a funny-looking but fortunately friendly extra-terrestrial was back then the biggest money-making film of all time. The alien […]

Oct, 19

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