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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
- Testosterone ** (2003, David Sutcliffe, Celina Font, Antonio Sabato Jr, Jennifer Coolidge, Sonia Braga) – Classic Movie Review 13,246
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari *** (2005, Judson Pearce Morgan, Daamen J Krall, Doug Jones, Lauren Birkell) – Classic Movie Review 13,245
Posts Tagged "David Thewlis"
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Naked ***** (1993, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 1871
Writer/director Mike Leigh’s 1993 eye-opener is one of his most powerful, controversial and uncompromising films, angering feminists big time. They booed and heckled him, trying to stop him speaking when he presented his movie at […]
James and the Giant Peach **** (1996, Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 1651
Director Henry Selick’s gorgeous 1996 British children’s movie stars Paul Terry as the titular James Trotter, a lonely nine-year-old orphan who is given a bag of glowing green seeds and grows a giant peach housing […]
Kingdom of Heaven **** (2005, Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 1075
On the level of sheer film-making expertise, director Ridley (Gladiator, Alien) Scott’s dark, sweeping, eye-popping 2005 epic is a marvel. It has all the amazing action, astounding effects, visual magnificence and minute attention to detail […]
Total Eclipse ** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer) – Classic Movie Review 1038
Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]
The Island of Dr Moreau (1996, Kilmer, Brando) – Bad Movie 1
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1996 movie is one of his worst films, an appalling, totally inept remake of the classic novel by H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau, filmed in 1933 as The Island […]
Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659
A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]
The Big Lebowski ***** (1998, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, David Thewlis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 288
‘This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.’ Super-charged with confidence in 1998 after the success of Fargo, the Coen Brothers score again and come up with another beloved cult classic crime comedy. […]