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Foul Play **** (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3058

Writer-director Colin Higgins’s hilarious 1978 comedy thriller stars Goldie Hawn as a shy San Francisco librarian innocently embroiled in a plot to kill the Pope on a visit to the city and Chevy Chase as […]

Nov, 14

The Station Agent **** (2003, Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2621

Writer-director Thomas McCarthy’s 2003 film is a gorgeously sweet and moving movie about a 4feet 6inch guy called Finbar ‘Fin’ McBride (Peter Dinklage) who has a deep love of railways. Fin has achondroplastic dwarfism, feels ostracised […]

Jun, 21

Time Bandits ***** (1981, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, Craig Warnock, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 2470

Co-writer, producer, director Terry Gilliam’s outstanding, quite magical 1981 British time-travel fantasy movie about dwarves taking a little boy with them on adventures through time is dark, weird and wonderful. With the young boy Kevin […]

May, 11

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ***** (1937, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1412

‘Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?’ – the jealous wicked Queen. Supervising director David Hand’s 1937 animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a trailblazer as the first […]

Jul, 10

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug *** (2013, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage) – Movie Review

Part two of The Hobbit, and Thorin (Richard Armitage) and the dwarves, along with the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and the Wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), continue their quest to reclaim their homeland […]

Dec, 11

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey *** (2012, Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis) – Movie Review

So Peter Jackson finally gets to film The Lord of the Rings sequel in 2012, after several years of pre-production hell that saw the original director Guillermo del Toro out on his ear after three […]

May, 26

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