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Empire Records **** (1995, Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 834

Allan Moyle’s very bright and jolly 1995 teen comedy drama film Empire Records is set around Anthony LaPaglia’s independent record store of the title, about to be sold to a large chain. Director Allan Moyle’s […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

Empire of the Sun ***** (1987, Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 833

Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]

Feb, 16 · in Reviews

The End of the Affair **** (1955, Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 832

Director Edward Dmytryk makes the mistake of turning one of Graham Greene’s finest novels into a conventional Hollywood-ised romantic potboiler. Ideally cast Deborah Kerr is excellent as the wartime wife Sarah Miles who suffers Roman […]

Feb, 15

The End of the Affair **** (1999, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 831

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Feb, 15

Breakfast on Pluto **** (2005, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Eamonn Owens) – Classic Movie Review 830

‘Same world, different planet!’ In brave, bold turn, and looking pretty as a picture, Cillian Murphy is a fabulous knockout as an Irish boy called Patrick Braden, who wants to be a girl called Kitten […]

Feb, 15

Breakfast at Tiffany’s ****½ (1961, Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, John McGiver) – Classic Movie Review 829

Director Blake Edwards’s enchanting 1961 film of Truman Capote’s novella earned an Oscar nomination Best Actress for style icon Audrey Hepburn’s gem of a performance as the kooky and cute Sixties sophisticated socialite Holly Golightly. […]

Feb, 15

A View to a Kill *** (1985, Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Bauchau, David Yip, Fiona Fullerton, Dolph Lundgren) – Classic Movie Review 828

In his seventh Bond movie, A View to a Kill directed by John Glen in 1985, Roger Moore enjoys his last outing as James Bond with this low-voltage tale in which 007 is pitted against blond super-baddie […]

Feb, 15

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