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Veronica Guerin *** (2003, Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 3330

Director Joel Schumacher’s 2003 true-story thriller stars Cate Blanchett, who excels as fearless Dublin reporter Veronica Guerin, who dices with death – even after her life is threatened – to pursue the story of an […]

Feb, 06

Trauma *½ (2004, Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Kenneth Cranham, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy) – Classic Movie Review 2153

Director Marc Evans’s 2004 thriller stars Colin Firth as Ben, who wakes up from a coma after a car crash to find that his wife is dead, and he starts hallucinating. A few weeks later, […]

Feb, 03

Resurrection Man ** (1998, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, John Hannah, James Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 2146

Director Marc Evans’s 1998 thriller is an extremely nasty-toned, alienating melodrama, set in 1975 Belfast. It opens a can of worms with its barrel-load of violence and clichés and pours them liberally over the familiar […]

Feb, 02

Angels in the Outfield *** (1994, Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – Classic Movie Review 1464

Director William Dear’s 1994 movie Angels in the Outfield is an old-fashioned family comedy drama from Walt Disney, with grumpy old coach George Knox (Danny Glover) supposedly gaining angelic assistance from Al the Boss Angel (Christopher […]

Jul, 23

Swann (1996, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Film Review 1200

Director Anna Benson Gyles‘s 1996 literary heart-warmer with intelligence and soul provides a lovely acting showcase for talented Miranda Richardson and Brenda Fricker. Richardson plays a hit author Sarah Maloney, who is asked to write the […]

May, 10

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

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