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The Squid and the Whale **** (2005, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney) – Classic Movie Review 2811

Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline star as two brothers forced to deal with the divorce of their parents Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney in Brooklyn in the 1980s in writer-director Noah Baumbach‘s poignant and amusing bitter-sweet […]

Aug, 14

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

Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review

With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]

May, 06

A Simple Twist of Fate *** (1994, Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 2151

Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1994 film of George Eliot’s classic novel Silas Marner comes with a screenplay by its star Steve Martin, who gives it a modern twist. Martin adapts and comes up with a semi-amusing […]

Feb, 03

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

The Life of David Gale **** (2003, Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney) – Classic Movie Review 1877

Kevin Spacey’s on top silkily sinister form as David Gale, a one-time campaigner against the death penalty, who is now a Death Row prisoner granting a final interview to keen young reporter Bitsey Bloom (played by Kate Winslet). […]

Nov, 23

Absolute Power *** (1997, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 1829

This improbable but modestly good and moderately exciting 1997 thriller stars a usefully employed Clint Eastwood as a veteran career thief named Luther Whitney who witnesses a horrific crime involving the US President. Whitney is a […]

Nov, 10

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