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Re-Animator *** (1985, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Barbara Crampton) – Classic Movie Review 2338

‘Herbert West Has A Very Good Head On His Shoulders… And Another One In A Dish On His Desk.’ Co-writer/director Stuart Gordon’s rousing, campy 1985 action horror comedy Re-Animator is based on an H P Lovecraft […]

Mar, 30

Mona Lisa Smile *** (2003, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 2329

Director Mike Newell’s 2003 drama stars Julia Roberts, who flashes her big smile as Katherine Ann Watson, a free-spirited art professor at a posh, conservative Fifties American school, Wellesley College. As a free-thinking teacher, she is frustrated […]

Mar, 29

Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2.148

Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]

Feb, 02

Midnight Express **** (1978, Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L Smith, Norbert Weisser, Mike Kellin) – Classic Movie Review 2073

Director Alan Parker’s horrific double Oscar-winning 1978 real-life drama of courage and the will to survive stars Brad Davis, who digs deep into his role of a lifetime as the young American college student Billy […]

Jan, 12

The Gambler *** (1997, Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2027

Director Károly Makk’s 1997 film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novella The Gambler stars Michael Gambon as the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jodhi May, Polly Walker and Dominic West as the obsessively addicted gambler Alexei. Its fresh take […]

Dec, 31

Selma ****½ (2014, David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review

David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo do a thoroughly excellent job of portraying Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King in this sterling re-creation of the civil rights marches of Selma, Alabama. There’s not been a major […]

Dec, 30

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

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