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Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388

Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]

Apr, 23

True Crime ** (1995, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn) – Classic Movie Review 5812

Writer-director Pat Verducci’s 1995 low budget film is a savage and deeply unpleasant thriller on a very familiar theme. Alicia Silverstone stars as bright Catholic school teenager Mary Giordano, a high school senior who is hooked on […]

Jul, 25

The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156

Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]

Mar, 15

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit ** (1993, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith, Barnard Hughes, James Coburn, Wendy Makkena, Michael Jeter) – Classic Movie Review 3558

Director Bill Duke’s quick 1993 sequel to the 1992 hit Sister Act betrays its hasty production in James Orr, Jim Cruickshank and Judi Ann Mason’s mediocre screenplay in this rickety vehicle for a likeable, amusing […]

Apr, 12

Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927

Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]

Dec, 07

Bad Education [La Mala Educación] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara) – Classic Movie Review 826

With La Mala Educación in 2004, Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar returns to the style and content of the films that made him famous in the Eighties with this provocative and sizzlingly stylish look at male […]

Feb, 13

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