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Stars and Bars (1988, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Martha Plimpton, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,338

The 1988 comedy Stars and Bars is an American disaster for Daniel Day-Lewis. The 1988 comedy Stars and Bars is an American disaster for talented Irish director Pat O’Connor, who misuses his special stars Daniel […]

Jun, 24

American Friends *** (1991, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina, David Calder) – Classic Movie Review 11,284

Michael Palin stars as the Reverend Francis Ashby, an Oxford don, who meets two holiday-making American girls in Switzerland, Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), who proceed to […]

Jun, 08

Swimming with Men *** (2018, Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Charlotte Riley) – Movie Review

Swimming with Men is good natured and amusing, with a good idea and a nice, friendly cast. Liked it! Swimming with Men is hardly a great movie but it is good natured and amusing, with […]

Jul, 04

Breathe ** (2017, Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers, Diana Rigg) – Movie Review

Actor Andy Serkis’s directorial debut is a surprisingly traditional and conventional biopic film. It is also straightforward, plain and sentimental, just when something rigorous and offbeat, even experimental, is required. It is very honorable, very English […]

Oct, 04

The Lost City of Z ** (2016, Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson) – Movie Review

Director James Gray’s biopic of British explorer Colonel Percival Fawcett is conscientious but terminally boring. Gray is a good director – Little Odessa (1994), The Yards (2000), We Own the Night (2007) – but this does not seem like […]

Mar, 25

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