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And Now the Screaming Starts! *** (1973, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 3095

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 British chiller is a bizarre, gruesome and handsome-looking Amicus horror tale about a family curse in which a disembodied hand comes through a picture on a wall and avenges the […]

Nov, 25

Hallam Foe **** (2007, Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 3055

Co-writer/director David Mackenzie’s 2007 movie stars Jamie Bell as weird 17-year-old Hallam Foe, who can’t stop missing his mother after her overdose of sleeping pills and suicide drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh. […]

Nov, 13

Now Is Good **½ (2012, Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole, Josef Altin) – Movie Review

Smart but sickly romance, with Dakota Fanning as Tessa Scott, a girl with leukaemia who compiles a list of things she’d like to do before dying, including losing her virginity. Fortunately, along comes that handy […]

Nov, 06

Disturbia *** (2007, Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer, Aaron Yoo) – Classic Movie Review 3030

Shia LaBeouf stars as a teenager living under house arrest who becomes convinced his creepy neighbour (David Morse) is a serial killer in director D J Caruso’s involving and suspenseful Rear Window-style thriller. Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) […]

Nov, 03

One Night at McCool’s **** (2001, Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3008

Director Harald Zwart’s smart and clever 2001 comedy stars Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser and John Goodman as a trio of hapless men who all fall for a beautiful temptress called Jewel (Liv Tyler at her […]

Oct, 24

Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]

Oct, 17

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life **** (1983, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2984

Terry Jones again directs and stars in the slightly less brilliant fourth Monty Python movie Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life in 1983. And, rather than something completely different, it is of course again written […]

Oct, 16

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