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The Tailor of Panama *** (2001, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 1439

Co-writer/director John Boorman’s 2001 thriller The Tailor of Panama stars Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a British spy in Panama who employs the services of a well-connected Cockney tailor (Geoffrey Rush) to relay sensitive information […]

Jul, 17

Grand Central *** (2013, Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet) – Movie Review

Tahar Rahim stars in Grand Central (2013) as unskilled young worker Gary Manda, who takes the only job he can as a decontamination operative at a lower Rhone valley nuclear power plant. Olivier Gourmet and […]

Jul, 17

I Am Divine *** (2013, Glenn Milstead) – Movie Review

The 2013 documentary feature film I Am Divine offers a poignant, insightful portrait of the drag queen, gay icon and cinematic muse of film director John Waters, the late, great Glenn Milstead. It’s a thoroughly […]

Jul, 17

Scooby-Doo *** (2000, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar) – Classic Movie Review 1437

Scooby-Doo, where are you? Oh, there you are, going barking mad as a big-screen cartoon character in an amiably daft live-action teen movie adventure, in which the Mystery Inc gang investigate strange goings on at an […]

Jul, 16

Birthday Girl ** (2001, Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz, Vincent Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 1436

Good but underwhelming, co-writer/director Jez Butterworth’s 2001 British comedy thriller ends up entertaining but surprisingly disposable and a bit disappointing. Nicole Kidman comes to Britain to show off her versatility as a Russian Internet-mail-order bride who […]

Jul, 16

Birdman of Alcatraz **** (1962, Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 1438

In director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic, Burt Lancaster gives one of his finest performances as the notorious and violent but mild-mannered real-life jailed killer Robert Stroud, who is locked away in Leavenworth Prison in 1912 for murdering […]

Jul, 16

The First Wives Club ***½ (1996, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 1435

Bette Midler (as Brenda Cushman), Goldie Hawn (as Elise Elliot) and Diane Keaton (as Annie Paradis) star as middle-agers plotting revenge after being dumped and divorced by their hubbies in favour of younger wives in director Hugh Wilson’s […]

Jul, 16

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