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Naked ***** (1993, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 1871

Writer/director Mike Leigh’s 1993 eye-opener is one of his most powerful, controversial and uncompromising films, angering feminists big time. They booed and heckled him, trying to stop him speaking when he presented his movie at […]

Nov, 22

James and the Giant Peach **** (1996, Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 1651

Director Henry Selick’s gorgeous 1996 British children’s movie stars Paul Terry as the titular James Trotter, a lonely nine-year-old orphan who is given a bag of glowing green seeds and grows a giant peach housing […]

Sep, 07

Kingdom of Heaven **** (2005, Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 1075

On the level of sheer film-making expertise, director Ridley (Gladiator, Alien) Scott’s dark, sweeping, eye-popping 2005 epic is a marvel. It has all the amazing action, astounding effects, visual magnificence and minute attention to detail […]

Apr, 09

Total Eclipse ** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer) – Classic Movie Review 1038

Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play (with a screenplay by the playwright himself) about the destructive mutual passion of the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rambeau and Paul Verlaine is a depressing fiasco […]

Apr, 02

The Island of Dr Moreau (1996, Kilmer, Brando) – Bad Movie 1

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1996 movie is one of his worst films, an appalling, totally inept remake of the classic novel by H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau, filmed in 1933 as The Island […]

Mar, 12

Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659

A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]

Jan, 09

The Big Lebowski ***** (1998, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, David Thewlis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 288

‘This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.’ Super-charged with confidence in 1998 after the success of Fargo, the Coen Brothers score again and come up with another beloved cult classic crime comedy. […]

Oct, 13

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