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- John and Julie *** (1955, Colin Gibson, Leslie Dudley, Moira Lister, Noelle Middelton, Constance Cummings, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sidney James, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 12,880
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Stop Making Sense **** (1984, David Byrne, Talking Heads) – Classic Movie Review 5352
David Byrne: ‘Thanks! Does anybody have any questions?’ Director Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film featuring the Eighties thinking person’s top rock act, Talking Heads, is a now iconic, superbly stylish music documentary and innovative concert […]
The Commitments *** (1991, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5047
Director Alan Parker assembles a likeable cast of youngish people searching after that elusive fame in his hit 1991 musical drama about the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band called The Commitments. It […]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch **** (2001, John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Andrea Martin, Karen Hines, Alberta Watson) – Classic Movie Review 4603
Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell’s 2001 cult American musical comedy drama is a tour de force for him, giving a sensational performance in the title role of Hedwig based on his original in his source stage show, written […]
American Pie Presents Band Camp ** (2005, Eugene Levy, Tad Hilgenbrink, Arielle Kebbel, Chris Owen) – Classic Movie Review 4522
Happily Eugene Levy recreates his hilarious series role as Jim’s dad Mr Levenstein in director Steve Rash’s moderately funny low-budget ($7 million) 2005 third sequel to the blockbuster teen comedy American Pie (1999). In the slapstick main role, Tad […]
Nowhere Boy **** (2009, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond) – Classic Movie Review 4419
Aaron Johnson (from 2008’s Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) captures the young John Lennon perfectly in director Sam Taylor-Wood’s inspired 2009 early-years biopic that reveals him as a troubled bunny. Lennon is shown as desperately […]
W W and the Dixie Dancekings *** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Art Carney, Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 4165
Director John G Avildsen’s pleasantly laid-back 1975 comedy stars Burt Reynolds as sweet-talking, happy-go-lucky US Southern Fifties trickster W W Bright. W W is an old rogue of a crook who makes his living robbing […]
Sing Street **** (2016, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Mark McKenna) – Movie Review
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo stars as Connor ‘Cosmo’ Lawler, a teenage boy growing up in Dublin during the mid-Eighties, who escapes his strained family life with his parents (Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy) by starting a new romantic pop band with […]