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Labyrinth **** (1986, David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud) – Classic Movie Review 3256

‘Jim Henson, George Lucas and David Bowie take you into a dazzling world of fantasy and adventure.’ David Bowie gives a memorable turn as the lead in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. Behind the scenes, […]

Jan, 11

Waking the Dead *** (2000, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Janet McTear, Molly Parker, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 2119

Billy Crudup stars as a 1970s aspiring politician, congressional candidate Fielding Pierce, who begins to lose his grip on reality when visions of his first love, Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) — who died nine years earlier — begin […]

Jan, 26

Dark City **** (1997, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 1099

Writer-director Alex Proyas’s extraordinary 1997 sci-fi chiller is a very pleasant surprise. Dark, intense and imaginative, this brilliant looking and exciting movie is excellently crafted by Proyas. Rufus Sewell stars as John Murdoch, who is […]

Apr, 15

Noah ** (2014, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth) – Movie Review

In the Beginning, back in 1966, there was a much derided movie called The Bible… In the Beginning, directed by the great John Huston, and starring himself as old Noah A contemporary review said: ‘A bad […]

Apr, 03

A Beautiful Mind **** (2001, Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 863

In director Ron Howard’s moving and distinguished 2001 film, Oscar-nominated Russell Crowe gives a performance to crow about as real-life maths genius John Nash, afflicted with the terrible curse of paranoid delusions and schizophrenia. After […]

Mar, 04

A New York Winter’s Tale * (2014, Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint) – Movie Review

Colin Farrell draws the short straw as middle-aged Irish burglar Peter Lake, who tries to rob a huge mansion on the Upper West Side in a New York winter. He thinks the house is empty, but the […]

Feb, 19

Pollock **** (2000, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Tom Bower, Bud Cort, John Heard, Robert Knott, David Leary, Amy Madigan, Jeffrey Tambor) – Classic Movie Review 448

In 2000 Ed Harris directs himself in a magnificent performance in his harrowing but revealing, moving and quite sterling biographical portrait of the hard-drinking, insecure American abstract expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). In a stupendous labour […]

Nov, 25

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