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Accattone ***** (1961, Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Franco Citti came to fame at 26 playing the title role in writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1961 Accattone and gives an extremely convincing and winning performance as Vittorio Cataldi, nicknamed Accattone (an Italian slang term meaning […]

Jan, 16

The Lincoln Lawyer **** (2011, Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas, John Leguizamo, Michael Peña, Bob Gunton, Frances Fisher, Bryan Cranston) – Classic Movie Review 3270

Working from the back of his Lincoln car with the registration plate NTGUILTY, Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a hotshot lawyer who makes the mistake of taking on the case Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a […]

Jan, 16

A League of Their Own *** (1992, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 3134

An excellent comedy drama idea about the founding of the All-American Girls’ Baseball League in 1943 when the men were away at war comes close to being chucked away in the popular high-profile 1992 movie […]

Dec, 06

Bachelor Party ** (1984, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Wendie Jo Sperber, Michael Dudikoff) – Classic Movie Review 3133

Co-writer-director Neal Israel’s 1984 comedy showcases the young Tom Hanks, then aged 28 and on his way to super-stardom, who leads a smutty, not very funny film about an accident-prone bachelor party. Not even the […]

Dec, 06

Ride the High Country [Guns in the Afternoon] ***** (1962, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan, Mariette Hartley, James Drury, Ronald Starr) – Classic Movie Review 3069

Director Sam Peckinpah’s 1962 Western is his second film as director (after The Deadly Companions in 1961) and one of his very best. Ageing stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott are magnificent as ex-marshal Steve […]

Nov, 17

Nightwatch * (1997, Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Brad Dourif, Josh Brolin, Lonny Chapman, Lauren Graham, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 3036

Writer-director Ole Bornedal’s 1997 thriller stars Ewan McGregor as the nightwatchman at a scary morgue in a town where somebody’s killing women and mutilating their bodies. McGregor is law student Martin Bells, who takes the […]

Nov, 07

Mrs Henderson Presents ***½ (2005, Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly, Will Young, Toby Jones, Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest) – Classic Movie Review 2977

Directed Stephen Frears’s highly entertaining 2005 comedy drama tells the engaging true story of the woman who ran a pioneering nudie theatre in London and kept the show open all through the WW2 Blitz. Judi […]

Oct, 11

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