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Empire Records (1995) – Classic Film Review 834

Director Allan Moyle’s very bright and jolly 1995 teen comedy drama is set around Anthony LaPaglia’s New Jersey independent record store of the title, where the employees learn about each other as they try all […]

Feb, 16

Elizabethtown **** (2005, Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Paul Schneider, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer) – Classic Movie Review 611

Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s 2005 film is another warm-hearted, deliciously quirky treat from the maker of Jerry Maguire. Orlando Bloom stars as a shoe designer called Drew Baylor, who decides to commit suicide after being responsible […]

Jan, 02

Last Vegas *** (2013, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen) – Movie Review

Lifelong sixty-something buddies Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline head for Las Vegas to throw a bachelor party and celebrate their last remaining single pal Michael Douglas’s planned wedding to a much, much […]

Jan, 02

Death in Venice [Morte a Venezia] ***** (1971, Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson) – Classic Film Rview 607

Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force as an ageing German avant-garde composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. In […]

Jan, 02

Four Weddings and a Funeral ***** (1994, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charlotte Coleman) – Classic Movie Review 370

‘Love means never having to say I do.’ – Ad line. Directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis in 1994, this sensational British romantic comedy was a worldwide hit and the first British […]

Nov, 06

The Third Man ***** (1949, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 170

‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]

Aug, 17

Get Carter ***** (1971, Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland) – Classic Movie Review 21

The top-notch 1971 British noir gangster thriller stars Michael Caine in one of his best roles as Jack Carter, a London-based crook who travels to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother’s murder.  Based on […]

Jul, 05

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