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True Lies **** (1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 5071

So Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new James Bond in 1994, or at any rate somebody very like 007, in director James Cameron’s relentlessly paced, spoofy-toned, escapist gung-ho action thriller. Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) leads a double life […]

Feb, 27

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ***** (1921, Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Nigel De Brulier, Alan Hale Sr, Jean Hersholt, Wallace Beery) – Classic Movie Review 3,051

UK cinema chain Odeon said it is closing five cinemas on 5 June 2023: Magdalen Street, Oxford; Rigby Road, Blackpool; Weston-super-mare; Ayr; and Banbury. Built by Frank Matcham, the 1,000-seat Oxford Odeon opened with The […]

Nov, 12

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05

Naked Tango **** (1990, Mathilda May, Vincent D’Onofrio, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 1867

Writer-director Leonard Schrader’s 1990 eerie and exciting dance-inspired thriller stars Mathilda May as a newly wed young European woman who assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina and finds herself caught up in a lurid […]

Nov, 22

Scent of a Woman ***** (1992, Al Pacino, Chris O’Donnell, James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar) – Classic Movie Review 800

In producer-director Martin Brest’s entertainingly sentimental 1992 epic comedy drama Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino gives a glorious show-stopping performance that runs the gamut from funny via sad to tough in turns, winning his […]

Feb, 04

Last Tango in Paris [Ultimo tango a Parigi] **** (1972, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Film Review 377

‘Go, get the butter!’ Marlon Brando, aged 48, relishes his most infamous role as the middle-aged American Paul who enjoys a sexual fling with young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider, just 20) in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s […]

Nov, 07

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