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Robots *** (2005, voices of Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1587
Directors Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, the makers of Ice Age (2002), come up with another dazzlingly inventive and witty CGI animation in 2005. Robin Williams voices the nutty robot Fender, who, with cute Cappy […]
The Secret Agent ** (1996, Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 1550
Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1996 new version of the 1907 Joseph Conrad classic novel is only interesting as an honourable failure and to compare it with the book and Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage version of it under […]
Brazil ***** (1985, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Jim Broadbent, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 836
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling 1985 movie provides an ambitious, horrifying vision of a dystopian world in the style of George Orwell’s novel 1984, predicting and condemning a bizarrely convoluted and inefficient state. Gilliam’s nightmarish vision makes for […]
Topsy-Turvy **** (1999, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 719
What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince **** (2009, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint) – Classic Movie Review 534
Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts in 2009 in the franchise’s penultimate episode, directed by David Yates. The boy wizard discovers an old book marked ‘the property of the Half-Blood Prince’ and begins […]
Moulin Rouge **** (2001, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 436
Fancy a musical? Come to that, fancy Ewan McGregor or Nicole Kidman? All three are here in this 2001 firecracker as you’ve never seen them before, all-singing, all-dancing in an outrageously flamboyant show set in […]
Little Voice **** (1998, Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 418
Written and directed by Mark Herman, this is an uneasy transfer to film of a great night out at London’s National Film Theatre – Jim Cartwright’s musical play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. […]