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I Love You, Man ***½ (2009, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Jaime Pressly, Jon Favreau, Jane Curtin, J K Simmons, Andy Samberg) – Classic Movie Review 4340

Co-writer/ director John Hamburg’s highly amusing and likeable 2006 comedy has a good script but it is largely motored by the appealing performances from odd couple Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Apart from the rude words and […]

Sep, 11 · in Uncategorized

Alfie ***** (1966, Michael Caine, Vivien Merchant, Shirley Anne Field, Millicent Martin, Jane Asher, Julia Foster, Shelley Winters, Eleanor Bron, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4.339

After a decade of supporting parts, Michael Caine finally made it to the top of the film biz ladder with this appealing, diverting and poignant tale (based on Bill Naughton’s play and novel) of the cockney Casanova Alfie, […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

Alfie **** (2004, Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Marisa Tomei, Renée Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 4338

Using some DNA dug up from an old British movie studio vault, Americans try to re-create the old sexist, misogynist dinosaur Alfie, played so memorably back in 1966 by Michael Caine in Alfie. They haven’t […]

Sep, 11

Sleuth **** (2007, Michael Caine, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 4337

Michael Caine and Jude Law – who played Caine’s old role in the underrated 2004 remake of Alfie – are perfect casting in yet another Caine remake – this time his 1972 hit thriller Sleuth, […]

Sep, 11

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll **** (2010, Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell) – Classic Movie Review 4336

Finally leaving the ghost of Gollum far behind, Andy Serkis gives a stunning, knockout performance – way the best he has ever done – in director Mat Whitecross’s marvellously full-on, in-your-face 2010 biopic of troubled, […]

Sep, 11

The Lovely Bones ** (2009, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4335

‘I remember being really small, too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe, and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in […]

Sep, 10

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ** (2010, Logan Lerman, Sean Bean, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T Jackson, Catherine Keener, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Jake Abel, Joe Pantoliano) – Classic Movie Review 4334

A hero called Percy? I don’t think so! Logan Lerman lands a huge star part but a short straw as an over-cute American high schooler, who turns out to be a demi-god. No, really! Even if […]

Sep, 10

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