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Buffalo Soldiers **** (2001, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1073

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2001 movie, based on the book by Robert O’Connor, is his biggest success so far. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a soldier who wheels and deals on the black market at a 1989 […]

Apr, 09

High Heels [Tacones lejanos] **** (1991, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 887

Pedro Almodóvar  comes up the weirdest and most contrived of plots for his 1991 movie High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) starring Victoria Abril and Marisa Paredes. ‘I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I […]

Mar, 09

Casper **** (1995, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle) – Classic Movie Review 840

Steven Spielberg decides in 1995 to produce the live-action debut of beloved cartoon friendly ghost Casper. But casting young Christina Ricci, (once Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and now 15) as the heroine gives her […]

Feb, 18

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

Amour ***** (2012, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert) – Movie Review

Munich-born writer-director Michael Haneke’s film about a married couple in their eighties desperately trying to cope when a stroke suddenly hits the wife one day at breakfast, leaving her speechless and partly paralysed, is a […]

Aug, 13

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