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Apostasy **** (2017, Sacha Parkinson, Siobhan Finneran, Molly Wright, Robert Emms) – Movie Review

Writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo’s 2017 British drama Apostasy looks at the Jehovah’s Witnesses through a sharply clear, critical eye in his Oldham-set story of a working class family of three Jehovah’s Witness, a mother and her […]

Dec, 10

Regeneration [Behind the Lines] **** (1997, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville) Classic Movie Review 7883

Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]

Dec, 05

Border [Gräns] **** (2018, Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom) – Movie Review

There’s a very strange-looking woman at the Border, a customs officer who seems able to sniff out the guilty as they come through customs. She really can sniff out trouble, smelling out guilt, and shame and sin […]

Sep, 28

Climax * (2018, Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile) – Movie Review

Brio film-making but way too strong and scary for me. Writer-director Gaspar Noé’s dynamic but hellish 2018 musical horror drama Climax is controversial brio film-making, perhaps admirable in its way, but way too strong and […]

Sep, 22

Imagine *** (1972, John Lennon, Yoko Ono) – Classic Movie Review 7597

Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]

Sep, 18

Gator *** (1976, Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed, Alice Ghostley, Dub Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7571

The always engaging Burt Reynolds stars again as former con man and black-marketeer Gator McKlusky, who is forced by agents to find some dirt on an old buddy turned politician, in the 1976 crime thriller Gator, […]

Sep, 13

Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review

Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]

Jul, 04

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