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Dead Cert * (1974, Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9047

The Dick Francis bestseller novel about doped horses, a trainer’s death and the Grand National race must have looked a dead cert for the cinema. But director Tony Richardson’s 1974 film Dead Cert soon falls […]

Nov, 03

Au Hasard Balthazar [Balthazar] ***** (1966, Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Walter Green, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut) – Classic Movie Review 4372

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s incredibly touching, highly personal 1966 film tells the biblical-style metaphorical tale of a mistreated donkey called Balthazar. Though austere, the film is completely approachable. While the donkey endures a life of misery […]

Sep, 17

Mediterraneo **** (1991, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti, Ugo Conti) – Classic Movie Review 3087

Director Gabriele Salvatores’s charming, easy-going 1991 Italian movie, dedicated to ‘all those who are running away’, is a highly appealing piece of film-making that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1992. Based on […]

Nov, 24

Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey? ** (2014, Martin Clunes, Marc Wootton, Catherine Tate, Celia Imrie, Jason Watkins) – Movie Review

It’s amazing that they’ve managed to find new material to squeeze a trilogy out of what was a thin idea in the first place back in 2009. But the third of the Nativity film series […]

May, 10

Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] ***** (1929, Luis Buñuel) – Classic Movie Review 1949

After all these years, writer-director Luis Buñuel’s and co-writer Salvador Dali’s uniquely disturbing, revelatory 1929 Surrealist short (17 minutes) film is a still brilliantly eye-catching Pandora’s box of the strangest of delights. It spills over with apparently […]

Dec, 13

Shrek ***** (voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz) – Classic Movie Review 435

Once upon a time, there was an ornery green ogre named Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers), who lives in a swamp. His nice quiet life is invaded first by a motor-mouth donkey (Eddie Murphy), then […]

Nov, 22

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