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Eat Pray Love **** (2010, Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis) – Classic Movie Review 4627

Julia Roberts stars as disillusioned American divorcée Liz Gilbert, who heads for Italy and finds the joy of eating and drinking. She then abandons that for the power of prayer in India and finally discovers […]

Nov, 10 · in Uncategorized

Mirrors 2 **½ (2010, Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Evan Jones, William Katt, Christy Romano) – Classic Movie Review 4626

And so, the terror lives on as Nick Stahl stars as our new hero Max Matheson in director Víctor García’s well-crafted 2010 horror thriller sequel to the 2008 hit Mirrors. This time, our hero is Max, […]

Nov, 10 · in Uncategorized

Mirrors **½ (2008, Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng, John Shrapnel, Cameron Boyce, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 4625

Kiefer Sutherland does his usual briskly competent job in Mirrors (2008) as Ben Carson, a troubled ex-NYPD detective who takes a job as a night-watch security guard at the abandoned Mayflower Department Store devastated by […]

Nov, 10

Mum & Dad **½ (2008, Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Writer-director Steven Sheil’s 2008 low-budget British horror thriller film is well made and resourceful but deeply unpleasant. It starts with young Polish Heathrow Airport office cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) accompanying an apparently friendly co-worker called […]

Nov, 10

In the Electric Mist *** (2009, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado, Ned Beatty, James Gammon) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Tommy Lee Jones is at his excellent haunted best in a tailor-made role as Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana cop who finds a connection between the New Orleans murder of a prostitute and the discovery of […]

Nov, 09

Frankenstein *** (2004, Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 4623

Director Marcus Nispel’s stylish, well-acted and engrossing 2004 contemporary horror thriller, set in present-day America, is based on a concept by Dean R Koontz and written by John Shiban, inspired by Mary Shelley’s famous tale. Parker Posey and Adam […]

Nov, 09

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

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