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Dog Soldiers *** (2002, Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 3439

Six soldiers set out in the Highland woods to destroy something out there that is killing everyone off at the time of the full moon. Writer-director Neil Marshall’s 2002 Brit werewolf chiller is occasionally scary […]

Mar, 02

Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719

Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]

Jul, 18

The Leading Man *** (1997, Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1503

Sexy Jon Bon Jovi is ideally cast in director John Duigan’s 1997 British romantic thriller drama as an arrogant, cocky American film star who arrives in London to do a stage show in the West End […]

Aug, 01

Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719

What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]

Jan, 19

The Acid House *** (1998, Stephen McCole, Maurice Roëves, Garry Sweeney, Kevin McKidd, Martin Clunes, Jemma Redgrave, Ewen Bremner) – Classic Movie Review 677

More twisted tales of the Scottish city, with author Leith-born Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, Filth) adapting a surreal triptych from his collection of short stories. It’s hard to imagine, but it seems even more extreme than […]

Jan, 12

Trainspotting ***** (1996, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo) – Classic Movie Review 35

Director Danny Boyle’s multi-award-winning 1996 film, based on the novel by Irvine Walsh, is rightly acknowledged to be one of the most original and imaginative films to come out of Britain in the Nineties. Arguably, […]

Jul, 09

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