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The Trial ****½ (1962, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 2141
Writer-director Orson Welles’s 1962 movie version of Franz Kafka’s novel about a man caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic red-tape legal nightmare is compelling, engrossing and spectacularly imaginative. Welles said with his usual modesty: ‘The Trial […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 **** (2014, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review
Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen for the first half of the two-part finale film in the trilogy from Suzanne Collins’s novel sequence. Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are back, too, as the men in […]
The Maze Runner *** (2014, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review
The 23-year-old TV Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien plays the hero Thomas, who emerges into a community of about 60 teenage boys after his memory is erased and he wakes up in an elevator. Director Wes […]
The Congress *** (2013, Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston) – Movie Review
Robin Wright bravely plays a version of herself, an aging, 44-year-old out-of-work actress who has made bad career, partner and life choices. But her agent Al (Harvey Keitel) talks her into reluctantly accepting one last job, becoming […]
Divergent **½ (2014, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jai Courtney) – Movie Review
Shailene Woodley stars as Tris who learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in to any one group in a futuristic Chicago. It’s 110 years after a war, and society is divided into five factions that represent a […]
The Machine **** (2013, Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson) – Movie Review
An excellent British sci-fi movie. How often have I written that? That’s right, not very often. Written and directed by Caradog W James, it is smart, atmospheric, thought-provoking, twisty and fast paced sci-fi thriller entertainment. […]
V for Vendetta **** (2005, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 254
‘A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having!’ Hugo Weaving gets star billing in V for Vendetta (2005), hidden behind his disguise as a Guy Fawkes-style masked avenger called ‘V’. Escaping from prison […]