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The Wolf of Wall Street ***** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Leonardo DiCaprio won the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that’s odd. I didn’t realise […]

Jan, 16

Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] ***** (1971, Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Film Rview 607

Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]

Jan, 02

Dangerous Liaisons ***** (1988, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 307

Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]

Oct, 21

Chinatown ***** (1974, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 24

Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-film noir detective movie Chinatown, set in a wonderfully realised 1937 Los Angeles, is beyond brilliant. Robert Towne won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne’s […]

Jul, 06

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

The Place Beyond the Pines **** (2012, Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ben Mendelsohn, Emory Cohen, Dane deHaan, Ray Liotta, Harris Yulin) – Movie Review

A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]

Jun, 17

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