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Marvin’s Room **** (1996, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, Hal Scardino, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 895

In the superlative 1996 heart-tugger film Marvin’s Room, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton are at their best as sisters Lee and Bessie who have been estranged since their father Marvin (Hume Cronyn)’s stroke 17 years […]

Mar, 10

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

Inception **** (2010, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page) – Classic Movie Review 801

A fired-up Leonardo DiCaprio is exactly the right fit for writer-director Christopher Nolan’s super-thief Dom Cobb, skilled in stealing valuable secrets from the subconscious during the dream state. Cobb’s offered a chance to get his […]

Feb, 05

The Wolf of Wall Street ***** (2013, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Leonardo DiCaprio won the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that’s odd. I didn’t realise […]

Jan, 16

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape **** (1993, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 593

Director Lasse Hallström‘s deliciously sweet movie from 1993 is an enormously appealing heart-warmer. In a bit of a potential minefield, it doesn’t ever put a foot wrong. Johnny Depp stars as Gilbert Grape, who lives in Endora, […]

Dec, 30

The Aviator *** (2004, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 592

Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes  hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]

Dec, 30

William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet ***** (1996, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 438

Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the star-crossed lovers and touch the heart in a glorious pop-video age version of the ever-popular William Shakespeare classic play. Director Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 delight is an utterly exhilarating, […]

Nov, 23

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