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The House of Mirth **** (2000, Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 2,810

Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]

Aug, 14

King of the Hill **** (1993, Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn) – Classic Movie Review 2136

Writer-director Steven Soderbergh’s moving, witty and highly engaging 1993 coming-of-age drama stars Jesse Bradford as a resourceful 12-year-old boy called Aaron who struggles to survive growing up in Depression-era St Louis. The boy plots and schemes […]

Jan, 31

Ordinary People ***** (1980, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch) – Classic Movie Review 2077

Director Robert Redford’s 1980 début as film director proves absolutely extraordinary and had the American Academy of Arts and Sciences lavishing four Oscars on it. Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture for […]

Jan, 13

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding *** (2012, Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, James Norton) – Movie Review

It’s England one winter day between the wars and a lovely, posh young woman is about to be married — but something or rather somebody from her past is going to get in the way […]

Sep, 21

Buffalo Soldiers **** (2001, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1073

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2001 movie, based on the book by Robert O’Connor, is his biggest success so far. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a soldier who wheels and deals on the black market at a 1989 […]

Apr, 09

Once Upon a Time in America ***** (1984, Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 139

In his final film, Sergio Leone’s great 1984 epic Once Upon a Time in America is a gargantuan gangster movie that follows the fortunes of a couple of friends who make a pact to share […]

Aug, 09

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