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Artificial Intelligence: AI ***** (2001, Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 232

The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment (then 13) proves what a little superstar he is as a robot boy who just longs to be human in Steven Spielberg’s dazzling sci-fi film, made in 2001. In […]

Sep, 08

The Fly **** (1958, David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 193

‘Help me!’ ‘Help me!’ Kurt Neumann’s original 1958 horror classic The Fly stars David ‘Al’ Hedison as André Delambre, the scientist who dangerously messes with the unknown when he invents a matter transporter that he […]

Aug, 26

Oliver Twist ***** (1948, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 165

Director David Lean’s richly entertaining 1948 movie adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist is still by far the best attempt to put the book on screen. Though he was accused of anti-Semitism in […]

Aug, 15

About a Boy ****½ (2002, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Movie Review 155

The 2002 comedy About a Boy is an endearing, delightful, often hilarious movie, with a cute plot, a witty, quirky script, the smoothest of performances and polished handling by directors Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, […]

Aug, 12

The Sixth Sense ***** (1999, Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment) – Classic Movie Review 131

‘I see dead people’ – Cole Sear. Bruce Willis gives one of his best ever performances in this captivating, chilling and unique 1999 suspense thriller with a unique take, a brilliantly stylish way of going […]

Aug, 06

Les Quatre Cents Coups [The 400 Blows] ***** (1959, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier) – Classic Movie Review 61

‘I had a fairly painful memory of my adolescence which contrasted with the regrets that others generally have for their youth. I wanted to express this feeling that adolescence is a bad moment to get […]

Jul, 18

Mud **** (2012, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Withersoon, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard, Joe Don Baker) – Movie Review

The Matthew McConaughey renaissance continues with this, quite probably his best ever performance, as a spectacularly grungy-looking fugitive hiding away alone on a Mississippi isolated island after killing the husband who was abusing his lover. […]

May, 26

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