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The Summit [La Cordillera] *** (2017, Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Erica Rivas, Christian Slater, Paulina García) – Movie Review 

Ricardo Darín is excellent as President Hernán Blanco of Argentina, who is facing various crises in his private and public life while in the middle of the Summit of Latin American presidents in La Cordillera. Darín […]

Oct, 01

Cry Freedom **** (1987, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington) – Classic Movie Review 5758

Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring and important social conscience 1987 real-life thriller stars Kevin Kline as Donald Woods, chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch, who is forced to escape from South Africa with his […]

Jul, 14

They’re a Weird Mob *** (1966, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux, Slim DeGrey, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 5508

Producer-director Michael Powell’s fairly enjoyable, easygoing and good-natured 1966 comedy movie of cultural misunderstandings starts off when an Italian immigrant Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) arrives Down Under in Australia to take up a job as a […]

May, 27

Alice in the Cities [Alice in den Städten] **** (1974, Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer) – Classic Movie Review 5441

Writer-director Wim Wenders’s 1974 German drama tells a clever, bittersweet parable story about the relationship between a German journalist Phil Winter (Rudiger Vogler) and a little nine-year old girl called Alice (Yella Röttlander) he gets stuck […]

May, 12

Kissing Jessica Stein **½ (2001, Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Esther Wurmfeld, Scott Cohen) – Classic Movie Review 4716

A meeting with a lesbian (Heather Juergensen) via a personal ad causes an unlucky-in-love New Yorker, Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt), to question her sexuality. Jewish journalist Jessica Stein is searching for the perfect man when […]

Nov, 28

The Bonfire of the Vanities ** (1990, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, F Murray Abraham, John Hancock, Kevin Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4436

Director Brian De Palma’s 1990 vanity project flop fiasco stars an exceptional cast of Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, F Murray Abraham, John Hancock and Kevin Dunn. Hanks […]

Sep, 29

The Year of Living Dangerously **** (1982, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 3785

Director Peter Weir’s 1982 romantic war drama, based on the novel by C J Koch, is an Aussie classic. The Year of Living Dangerously is 1965 and the dangerous place is Indonesia. Mel Gibson stars as Guy Hamilton, an […]

May, 29

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