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The Football Factory **** (2004, Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan, Dudley Sutton, Roland Manookian) – Classic Movie Review 687

It’s the FA Cup draw and it’s Chelsea versus Millwall: that’s good news for the footie louts and bad news for the good folk of London. You’ll need a strong stomach for director Nick Love’s […]

Jan, 14

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 660

Daniel Craig stars as a London-based criminal who wants to quit the cocaine business, in debut director Matthew Vaughn’s better-than-most 2004 British crime film Layer Cake. Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one […]

Jan, 10

Desperado **** (1995, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida ) – Classic Movie Review 594

Though writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s 1995 movie masquerades as a sequel to his prize-winning breakthrough independent movie El Mariachi (1992), this is actually more or less a big-budget remake. Antonio Banderas successfully takes over the role of the […]

Dec, 30

King of New York ***** (1990, Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne) – Classic Movie Review 182

‘From now on nothing goes down unless I’m involved. No blackjack, no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on […]

Aug, 23

American Beauty ***** (1999, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 163

Kevin Spacey won the best actor Oscar for his stupendous performance as Lester Burnham, an American middle-class married man undergoing a middle-aged crisis, in the superb 1999 film American Beauty. Kevin Spacey won the best […]

Aug, 15

Requiem for a Dream ***** (2000, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 67

For his 2000 follow-up to his hugely promising debut Pi (1998), director Darren Aronofsky comes up with an astonishing, uniquely haunting movie. It takes us to a dark and dangerous place. The author of the […]

Jul, 19

Scarface ***** (1983, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Miriam Colon, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Pepe Serna) – Classic Movie Review 51

‘The world is yours.’ Director Brian De Palma’s 1983 all-stops-out remake of Howard Hawks’s 1932 classic gangster thriller Scarface with Paul Muni is now a classic in its own right. Al Pacino appears in one […]

Jul, 15

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