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Life of Riley [Aimer, boire et chanter] **** (2014, Sabine Azéma, Hippolyte Girardot, Caroline Sihol) – Movie Review

Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) is the last film of great French director Alain Resnais, who died on March 1 2014, aged 91. He was perhaps best known for known for Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon […]

Mar, 05

Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10

American Sniper ***** (2014, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner) – Movie Review

Director Clint Eastwood’s devastating anti-war movie is one of his best films, with several scalding, edge-of-seat, life-or-death sequences that will always haunt the mind. Bradley Cooper is great as real-life US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, whose accuracy […]

Jan, 06

Johnny English *** (2003, Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia) – Classic Movie Review 1750

Rowan Atkinson plays dithering special agent Johnny English in this incredibly popular, idiotic James Bond spy spoof that has plenty of amateurish enthusiasm but little in the way of inspiration or big laughs. Based on […]

Oct, 07

Orphans **** (1998, Douglas Henshall, Stephen Cole, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson) – Classic Movie Review 1704

Fasten your seat belts for writer-director Peter Mullan’s excitingly tough and gritty 1998 black-toned comedy drama set in a poor district of Glasgow. There, Mrs Flynn’s four children gather in their late mother’s home on […]

Sep, 22

The Pallbearer *** (1996, David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Classic Movie Review 1170

David Schwimmer is very amusing as Tom Thompson, an agreeable young man corralled in as the pallbearer for a high-school buddy he hardly remembers by the deceased’s amorous mom (Barbara Hershey). Co-writer/director Matt Reeves excellent, […]

May, 02

Harold and Maude ***** (1971, Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles) – Classic Movie Review 1,077

Hal Ashby’s 1971 adorable oddball black comedy film Harold and Maude has deservedly proved an enduring favourite. Bud Cort stars as a young weirdo obsessed with death, who meets a free-spirited old hippy (Ruth Gordon) […]

Apr, 11

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