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Flirting **** (1991, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman) – Classic Movie Review 1795

Writer-director John Duigan’s engrossing, beautifully crafted, sharp-witted 1991 coming-of-age tale is set in Australia during the 1960s in the gothic oppressions of an Australian public boarding school for boys, who are at the mercy of […]

Nov, 01

Murder by Numbers *** (2002, Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Ben Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 1673

Director Barbet Schroeder’s 2002 thriller is movie-making by numbers as Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt star as two arrogant yuppie high-school boys who kill a woman for kicks and, via fake evidence, false alibis and […]

Sep, 14

Matilda **** (1996, Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Pam Ferris, Embeth Daviditz) – Classic Movie Review 1650

Producer/director/star Danny DeVito’s 1996 children’s movie is a splendidly dark, colourful and inspiring family comedy based on the Roald Dahl classic story. Mara Wilson is stupendous as the extremely gifted little girl Matilda Wormwood who […]

Sep, 07

Liberty Heights **** (1999, Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Bebe Neuwirth) – Classic Movie Review 1546

Writer-director Barry Levinson’s posh, intelligent, enjoyable if rambling 1999 coming-of-age drama centres on two Jewish brothers in Baltimore in 1954-55. It boasts powerful, committed performances from a strong cast headed by Adrien Brody, Ben Foster , Joe […]

Aug, 15

Jack *** (1996, Robin Williams, Diane Lane) – Classic Movie Review 1540

Robin Williams rejoices in the custom-made role of Jack, a boy with a rare aging disorder that causes him to age four times faster than he should. So at 10, he looks 40, and has […]

Aug, 12

Kes ***** (1969, David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1481

Director Ken Loach’s 1969 film is his masterpiece, a superb British humanist, realist film. It is a bleak, despairing but not negative  experience and it is lit up with a heartrending performance by the young David […]

Jul, 27

Grease ***** (1978, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 1478

Re-released in cinemas for its 20th birthday in 1998 and again for its 40th birthday in 2018, director Randal Kleiser’s breathlessly exuberant, joyous 1978 movie of Grease, Broadway’s second longest running musical after A Chorus […]

Jul, 26

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