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Posts Tagged "Rhys Ifans"

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Twin Town * (1997, Rhys Ifans, Llyr Evans, Dougray Scott, William Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2723

Real-life brothers Rhys Ifans and Llyr Evans star as drug-taking, car thieving slacker twins Jeremy and Julian Lewis in co-writer/director Keith Allen’s obnoxious 1997 Welsh black comedy, set in Swansea. The twins embark on a […]

Jul, 20

She’s Funny That Way *** (2014, Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Rhys Ifans, Will Forte) – Movie Review

Peter Bogdanovich’s 2014 screwball comedy She’s Funny That Way proved his last film before his death in January 2022. It stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston. The 74-year Peter Bogdanovich had not directed a […]

Jun, 25

Little Nicky * (2000, Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 1976

Director Stephen Brill’s 2000 silly comedy tries hard to raise laughs but it is mostly almost painfully unfunny. Adam Sandler stars as Nicky, the geeky, mild-mannered son of The Devil (Harvey Keitel), sent from Hell to New […]

Dec, 19

Vanity Fair *** (2004, Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai) – Classic Movie Review 1751

Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]

Oct, 07

Hannibal Rising **** (2007, Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Gong Li, Dominic West) – Classic Movie Review 1666

Hannibal series producer Dino de Laurentiis hires Girl with a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber to direct the story prequel Hannibal Rising in 2007. Gaspard Ulliel stars as young Hannibal, who begins plotting his vengeance on […]

Sep, 12

The Boat That Rocked [Pirate Radio] **** (2009, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Rowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 798

A lot was expected of this extremely likeable and funny 2009 comedy from writer-director Richard Curtis, the laugh mastermind behind the scripts of Blackadder, Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley for TV and Four […]

Feb, 04

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands *** (2002, Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson ) – Classic Movie Review 482

Robert Carlyle stars in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) as Jimmy, a Glasgow-based small-time crook who heads back for his Nottingham home town to try to win back his ex-girlfriend Shirley (Shirley […]

Dec, 07

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