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The Match ** (1999, Max Beesley, Isla Blair, Laura Fraser, James Cosmo, Ian Holm, Richard E Grant, Neil Morrissey, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 3564

Writer-director Mick Davis’s pleasant but extremely mild 1999 contemporary British sports romantic comedy is set in Inverdoune, an idyllic village nestling in the pretty Scots Highlands. Max Beesley plays Wullie Smith, the local milkman besotted […]

Apr, 13

Hudson Hawk **½ (1991, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, Richard E Grant, Sandra Bernhard) – Classic Movie Review 3447

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1991 spoof adventure caper is game for a laugh but alas it is all too erratic and unfocused to provide the big guffaws and chortles you’d expect. Catch the Hawk, they advertised, […]

Mar, 04

The Serpent’s Kiss *** (1997, Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 3038

Director Philippe Rousselot’s subtle and intriguing 1997 film stars Ewan McGregor as young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome, who arrives at the remote British stately home of Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) and his wife Juliana […]

Nov, 07

Withnail & I **** (1987, Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 2579

Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]

Jun, 10

Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review

Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]

Jun, 03

The Player ***** (1992, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 2122

Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]

Jan, 27

The Little Vampire *** (2000, Jonathan Lipnicki, Rollo Weeks, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1771

A married couple called the Thompsons (Tommy Hinkley, Pamela Gidley) move with their nine-year-old lad Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki) to the Scottish Highlands, where the boy starts dreaming about vampires. Then at first he is soon […]

Oct, 22

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