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The Hard Word *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 4889

For some reason sporting a weird prosthetic nose, Guy Pearce leads this in-your-face but jovial, old-style caper thriller about three crook brothers, Dale, Shane and Mal Twentyman (Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson). The three fraternal […]

Jan, 14

Hollywood Homicide ** (2003, Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwod, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Dwight Yoakam, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau) – Classic Movie Review 4520

Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett make an unlikely pair of LAPD cop buddies in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Ron Shelton’s slapdash 2003 action comedy thriller, investigating a thin yet hard-to-follow plot about the in-club murder of […]

Oct, 24

Le Souffle au Coeur [Dearest Love] [Murmur of the Heart] **** (1971, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 4505

Writer-director Louis Malle’s tender 1971 middle-class coming-of-age comedy of manners is the end of the first Indochina War. The film poses a rather delicate question: will the open-minded young teenage boy Laurent (Benoît Ferreux), who has the […]

Oct, 22

Go **** (1999, Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner, Katie Holmes) – Classic Movie Review 4228

Sarah Polley (as Ronna), Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner and Katie Holmes star in director Doug Liman’s clever and exciting 1999 multiple perspectives crime comedy, in which the events that follow some young Californians’ drugs deal are […]

Sep, 20

Alfie ***** (1966, Michael Caine, Vivien Merchant, Shirley Anne Field, Millicent Martin, Jane Asher, Julia Foster, Shelley Winters, Eleanor Bron, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4.339

After a decade of supporting parts, Michael Caine finally made it to the top of the film biz ladder with this appealing, diverting and poignant tale (based on Bill Naughton’s play and novel) of the cockney Casanova Alfie, […]

Sep, 11

Closing the Ring **** (2007, Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Martin McCann, Dylan Roberts, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 4318

The 83-year-old producer-director Richard Attenborough’s heartfelt, old-style 2007 romantic drama Closing the Ring is a delight, and it is a superb showcase for movie treasures Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, who grab their showy acting […]

Sep, 08

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon **** (1998, Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Karl Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4231

Finally, Derek Jacobi atones for his dreadful performance in Dead Again by grabbing hold of the part he he he was born for by the scruff of the neck and making it perfect. Jacobi plays […]

Aug, 25

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