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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? *** (1970, Tony Curtis, Brian Keith, Ernest Borgnine, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 10,770

If you like the wacky Sixties title Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?, you might like director Hy Averback’s uneven and unwieldy 1970  army satire about a trio of US tank buddies (Tony […]

Jan, 09

Empire State ** (1987, Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson, Glen Murphy, Ian Sears, Martin Landau, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 10,769

Director Ron Peck’s 1987 crime thriller Empire State is an intriguing attempt to bring the American gangster style to Britain in an adult yarn about a young Yankee mobster arriving at the title nightclub to […]

Jan, 08

The Supergrass ** (1985, Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 10,768

Co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s 1985 British film The Supergrass stars a hugely impressive array of Eighties TV icons: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Ronald […]

Jan, 08

Touching the Void **** (2003, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron) – Classic Movie Review 10,767

Director Kevin Macdonald’s 2003 Touching the Void is the breathtakingly exciting and awesome Bafta award-winning documentary-style drama, re-creating the events of 1985 when two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, try to scale the west […]

Jan, 08

Eat a Bowl of Tea *** (1989, Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor Wong) – Classic Movie Review 10,766

Director Wayne Wang’s 1989 Eat a Bowl of Tea is a gently amusing, telling and well acted 1940s-set romantic comedy drama about the family troubles of a young Chinese-American, Ben Loy (Russell Wong), when he […]

Jan, 08

Eat the Rich * (1987, Al Pillay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 10,764

Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]

Jan, 07

Tortilla Soup *** (2001, Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Peña, Jaqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 10,759

Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]

Jan, 06

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