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City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194

Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]

May, 09

The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan […]

Apr, 01

The Broken Hearts Club **** (2000, Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Ben Weber, John Mahoney, Mary McCormack, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 929

Writer-director Greg Berlanti’s 2000 comedy is that rare mainstream movie – a quality, funny, perceptive, life-affirming character study of a group of gay men living, loving and bitching in West Hollywood, LA. Happily, in the […]

Mar, 17

The Bridges of Madison County **** (1995, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley) – Classic Movie Review 748

Get out a full bumper-sized box of tissues for star-director Clint Eastwood’s cute, bittersweet Sixties-set Brief Encounter-style 1995 romantic weepie The Bridges of Madison County. It is polished, posh and poignant, casting its spell and […]

Jan, 25

The Odd Couple ***** (1968, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Herb Edelman, Iris Adrian) – Classic Movie Review 708

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon light up the screen with laughter as the quintessential Odd Couple in 1968. Matthau plays the slobbish, grouchy sportswriter Oscar Madison and Lemmon is the houseproud, hypochondriac photographer Felix Ungar, […]

Jan, 17

Wicker Park ** (2004, Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 675

Tending to let his single eyebrow do most of the acting for him, Josh Hartnett plays Matthew, a young Chicago advertising executive who is about to marry his boss’s daughter when he sees his long-lost love […]

Jan, 11

Lost in Translation ****½ (2003, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 666

Perhaps never better, Bill Murray put in his bid in 2003 for an Oscar as a fading, ageing American movie star who goes to Tokyo to do a whisky ad. Lonely in his hotel, he […]

Jan, 10

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