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Broadway Bound ***½ (1992, Anne Bancroft, Hume Cronyn, Corey Parker, Jonathan Silverman) – Classic Movie Review 2007

Director Paul Bogart’s enthralling 1992 movie of the third part of Neil Simon’s delightful, famous Broadway stage trilogy stars Corey Parker, who takes over from Matthew Broderick in Biloxi Blues (1988) as the saga’s hero and Simon […]

Dec, 28

Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

Nanny McPhee **** (2005, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1834

Emma Thompson and Colin Firth star in director Kirk Jones’s delightful, magical 2005 family fantasy comedy film Nanny McPhee, with expert performances and a super wicked sense of humour. Thompson stars as a Mary Poppins-style […]

Nov, 12

Feeling Minnesota *** (1996, Keanu Reeves, Vincent D’Onofrio, Cameron Diaz) – Classic Movie Review 1606

Feeling queasy, more like! Writer/director Steven Baigelman’s 1996 new-wave thriller is creditably ambitious and complex, if flawed and muddled – and no crowd-pleaser. Keanu Reeves and Vincent D’Onofrio star as grungy sibling rivals who start a […]

Aug, 30

Addams Family Reunion ** (1998, Daryl Hannah, Tim Curry, Patrick Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1604

The Addams Family just isn’t the same when it’s a different family. Director David Payne’s 1998 second sequel to the 1991 hit The Addams Family is a mediocre, if watchable made-for-video black comedy based on […]

Aug, 30

Before and After *** (Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Edward Furlong) – Classic Movie Review 1468

Director Barbet Schroeder’s 1996 fast-paced dramatic thriller stars Liam Neeson as a well-respected American father who fights with his wife (Meryl Streep) and daughter (Julia Weldon) when their teenage son, New England boy Jacob (Edward Furlong), […]

Jul, 25

Belle **** (2013, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid) – Movie Review

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Dido Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy officer, brought as a child to England by her father Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who leaves her in the […]

Jun, 11

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