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Honey Boy **** (2019, Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs) – Movie Review

More than just a bit uncomfortably, Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own domineering father in Honey Boy (2019), an ex-rodeo clown with a prison record called James Lort, in LaBeouf’s thinly semi-fictionalised story […]

Dec, 07

May We Borrow Your Husband? **½ (1986, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough, Francis Matthews, David Yelland, Simon Shepherd, Claude Coppola) – Classic Movie Review 4871

Director Bob Mahoney 1986 British TV movie for Yorkshire TV stars Dirk Bogarde as divorced William Harris in his own adaptation of Graham Greene’s story. He is staying in France in a Nice hotel, where […]

Jan, 10

Grimsby ** (2016, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher) – Movie Review

Sacha Baron Cohen puts the grim in Grimsby as his latest creation, the football obsessed, kebab-munching Nobby. Cohen and Mark Strong form a highly skilled comedy double act but the jokes are mean and offensive – and isn’t […]

Feb, 24

By the Sea *** (2015, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent, Niels Arestrup, Melvil Poupaud, Richard Bohringer) – Movie Review

Patience is required, and somewhat rewarded, for Angelina Jolie’s 2015 work as writer, director and star of this intense, serious but plush and sedate romantic drama, mysteriously set in France during the mid 1970s. Jolie casts […]

Dec, 10

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 […]

Nov, 03

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