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Hot Fuzz **** (2007, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, Billie Whitelaw, Timothy Dalton, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 3314

The comedy team from Shaun of the Dead (2004) delivers the big laughs again with this triumphant spoof thriller that imagines British police such as the like of those shown in TV’s Heartbeat are filmed […]

Feb, 01

Performance ***** (1970, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton) – Classic Movie Review 2,990

Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s clever 1970 gender-bender teaser film Performance is a stunning eye-opener and turned out to be a milestone of British cinema with its provocative mix of perverted sex and violence. James […]

Oct, 18

The Legend of Barney Thomson ** (2015, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo) – Movie Review

In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]

Jul, 23

Erebus: Into the Unknown *** (2014) – Movie Review

Director Charlotte Purdy’s powerful and compelling documentary tells the true story of the New Zealand cops who tackled the aftermath of one of the world’s worst ever aviation disasters. On 28 November 28 1979, a jet with […]

Jan, 07

LA Confidential ***** (1997, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 15

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]

Jul, 03

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