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The Town **** (2010, Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner) – Classic Movie Review 585

Ben Affleck makes a scalding job of directing this 2010 superb cops and bank robbers heist movie thriller, but it’s his stunning performance that really gives his movie class. He’s just so darned good as […]

Dec, 28

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

Brassed Off **** (1996, Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 425

Writer-director Mark Herman’s 1996 British comedy drama is thoughtful and amusing and was deservedly highly popular. It follows the fortunes of a Yorkshire colliery brass band as its members struggle for both musical and personal […]

Nov, 19

The Lost World: Jurassic Park **** (1997, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Richard Attenborough, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 363

In 1997, Steven Spielberg turns out a less good but still highly entertaining sequel to his 1993 dinosaur adventure megahit Jurassic Park. Jeff Goldblum is back as chaos theorist mathematician Dr Ian Malcolm, and provides […]

Nov, 04

The Omen **** (2006, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) – Classic Film Review 248

The slick and exciting 2006 horror thriller remake film The Omen is unexpectedly good, a whole load better than could possibly have been imagined. Liev Schreiber is first rate in Gregory Peck’s old role as […]

Sep, 18

The Usual Suspects ***** (1995, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 81

A legendary cast lights up the electrifying, brilliantly teasing 1995 thriller film The Usual Suspects, packed to overflowing with intrigue and tension throughout. Kevin Spacey swept to stardom and his 1996 Best Supporting Actor Oscar.  […]

Jul, 22

Alien 3 **** (1992, Sigourney Weaver, Charles S Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Lance Henriksen, Philip Davis) – Classic Movie Review 43

It’s 1992, and Sigourney Weaver returns with a scary Sinead O’Connor haircut for her spectacular supposedly final battle with the seemingly indestructible Alien on an ore refinery prison planet where she has crash landed in […]

Jul, 11

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