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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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Hana-Bi [Fireworks] **** (1997, Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi) – Classic Movie Review 6525
After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl ***½ (2015, Thomas Mann, R J Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Connie Britton, Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review
Thomas Mann stars as eccentric but essentially nice 17-year-old Pittsburgh high schooler Greg, who makes parodies of classic movies with his buddy Earl (R J Cyler) but otherwise has no friends. ‘We make films,’ says Greg. […]
Calendar Girls ****½ (2003, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 1959
Keep a date with Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett as the real-life Yorkshire Women’s Institute ladies who — oh so demurely! — go the full monty for […]
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 […]
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 […]
The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] **** (1977, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain) – Classic Movie Review 132
Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, nail-biting 1974 bestselling thriller novel Ripley’s Game becomes Wim Wenders’s impressively slick and dark-toned 1977 film The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund]. Dennis Hopper stars as the talented Mr Tom Ripley. ‘There’s […]
Byzantium *** (2012, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones, Johnny Lee Miller, Tom Hollander, Daniel Mays) – Movie Review
Vampires again – good! – and from Neil Jordan, the director of Interview with the Vampire – good! – but oh so very serious – bad! Byzantium is lovingly done but it’s not really very […]
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