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My Left Foot **** (1989, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Conor, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 5541
Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won the 1990 Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for their outstanding, heart-rending performances as Christy Brown and his mother Mrs Brown, in Jim Sheridan’s inspiring 1989 biopic of […]
Ondine **** (2009, Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 5527
Colin Farrell is exceptionally good – warm, appealing and surprisingly convincing as stout-hearted Irish fisherman Syracuse – in writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2009 Splash!-style movie. It has more than a touch of the old Irish blarney to […]
The Secret Scripture *** (2016, Vanessa Redgrave, Rooney Mara, Theo James, Jack Reynor, Eric Bana, Adrian Dunbar, Susan Lynch) – Movie Review
The Secret Scripture is a bit manipulative and melodramatic, but still enjoyable. It is very romantic and glossy, with sweet performances from a very classy cast. Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara star as the older […]
Handsome Devil ***½ (2016, Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott) – Movie Review
Award-winning writer/director John Butler (The Stag) returns with a charming, crowd-pleasing story of the unlikely friendship between two Irish boarding school roommates – gay loner outsider Ned (Fionn O’Shea) and new boy macho star rugby player […]
Last Man Standing **** (1996, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson) – Classic Movie Review 4927
Writer-director Walter Hill’s dark, dour and downbeat 1996 American gangster movie remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Japanese adventure Yojimbo (1961) is a thrilling action movie. It stars Bruce Willis as John Smith, Christopher Walken as Hickey, Bruce Dern […]
The Young Philadelphians *** (1959, Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Billie Burke, John Williams, Otto Kruger, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 4637
Director Vincent Sherman’s soapy 1959 novel-to-film transfer The Young Philadelphians is trashy but very polished and compulsive, with a lot of plot to fill the long 136 minute running time. It was nominated for three […]
Ae Fond Kiss… **** (2004, Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz) – Classic Movie Review 4215
Romeo and Juliet in Glasgow. Strict Pakistani Scot Casim (Atta Yaqub) is set to marry Jasmine, a cousin he has never met, thanks to the arrangement made by his traditional family. But then it is […]