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The Revenant **** (2015, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Paul Anderson, Lukas Haas) – Movie Review

‘All I had was my boy… but he took him from me, you understand? He’s afraid. He knows how far I came to find him. ‘ In his first role since The Wolf of Wall […]

Dec, 19

The Departed ***** (2006, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 1996

Martin Scorsese‘s spectacular 2006 crime thriller epic boldly remakes the 2002 Hong Kong cult favourite Infernal Affairs and hit the jackpot at the box office and the Oscars. winning four, including Best Motion Picture of the Year […]

Dec, 23

This Boy’s Life **** (1993, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 1,434

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s riveting and disturbing 1993 American biographical coming-of-age movie This Boy’s Life stars the amazing actor that was the young Leonardo DiCaprio. He is extraordinarily compelling, quite mesmerising, as Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff, an early […]

Jul, 16

The Quick and the Dead *** (1995, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe) – Classic Film Review 1223

Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]

May, 17

Total Eclipse ** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer) – Classic Movie Review 1038

Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]

Apr, 02

Celebrity *** (1998, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Joe Mantegna, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Hank Azario, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 1037

Celebrity has to be counted a bit of an intriguing flop in 1998 from writer-director Woody Allen (who doesn’t appear, which is always bad news). Kenneth Branagh is miscast and struggling in what amounts to […]

Apr, 02

The Man in the Iron Mask *** (1998, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud) – Classic Movie Review 1035

Writer-director Randall Wallace (also the writer of Braveheart) directs a lusty, zesty 1998 version of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, first filmed in 1929 by Douglas Fairbanks Sr as The Iron Mask, and again as […]

Apr, 01

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