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Shattered Glass **** (2003, Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn) – Classic Movie Review 1899
Writer-director Billy Ray’s 2003 real-life media drama finds good work for Hayden Christensen, who acts like a male model in the Star Wars series, but here kicks up a storm as real-life rogue reporter Stephen […]
Riding in Cars with Boys *** (2001, Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 1862
Director Penny Marshall’s poignant 2001 comedy drama stars Drew Barrymore on storming form as real-life Beverly D’Onofrio, who comes of age in the late Sixties, and has her entire life coloured by an event that […]
Manhattan ***** (1979, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 1797
Of all co-writer/director Woody Allen’s many movies, this 1979 salute to – or maybe love letter to – his home town of New York City is arguably his finest masterpiece. It won 1980 Bafta awards […]
Hannah and her Sisters ***** (1986, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey, Max von Sydow, Sam Waterston, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 1796
Writer-director Woody Allen’s triple-Oscar-winning 1986 crowd-pleaser Hannah and her Sisters is one of his best and most enduring movies. Some even say it is his finest work. Allen’s then partner Mia Farrow stars as famous […]
Hue and Cry ***** (1947, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 1653
Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]
Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627
Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]
Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432
Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]