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Compulsion **** (1959, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1,674

Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides an engrossing and distinguished version of the deeply disturbing 1924 Chicago Leopold and Loeb murder case. Director Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides […]

Sep, 14

Spanking the Monkey *** (1994, Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson) – Classic Movie Review 1663

Director David O Russell’s clever, funny 1994 black comedy stars Jeremy Davies as a teenage lad, promising medical student Ray Abielli, who is forced by his bullying travelling salesman father Tom (Benjamin Hendrickson) to stay […]

Sep, 12

Dead Poets Society **** (1989, Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles) – Classic Movie Review 1543

‘No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.’ – John Keating. Director Peter Weir’s inspiring, heart-felt 1989 triumph stars Robin Williams in one of his career best performances as a […]

Aug, 13

Patch Adams *** (1998, Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel London, Harold Gould) – Classic Movie Review 1541

Director Tom Shadyac’s 1998 film is a good-hearted if sugary sweet, true-life-derived comedy drama, in which an ideally cast Robin Williams plays Hunter Patch Adams, an offbeat medical student in the 70s who illegally treats […]

Aug, 12

Taps *** (1981, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, George C Scott, Tom Cruise) – Classic Movie Review 1510

‘We have a home here. We think it’s something worth defending.’ – Cadet Major Brian Moreland. Director Harold Becker’s 1981 movie is one of the key youth-oriented films of the 80s. It’s Timothy Hutton’s follow-up […]

Aug, 02

Malice *** (1993, Bill Pullman, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 1509

Director Harold Becker’s 1993 thriller is a compulsively preposterous, bizarre and artificial suspense mystery movie, in which Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as New England college dean Andy and his lovely younger wife Tracy, Andy’s former pupil who […]

Aug, 02

Elephant *** (2003, Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1373

Two neo-Nazi high-school boys (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) watch some Hitler rally newsreels, listen to Beethoven, then get kitted up in military gear and run amuck with a vast arsenal of weapons at their fictional […]

Jun, 29

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