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The Boat That Rocked [Pirate Radio] **** (2009, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Rowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 798
A lot was expected of this extremely likeable and funny 2009 comedy from writer-director Richard Curtis, the laugh mastermind behind the scripts of Blackadder, Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley for TV and Four […]
Punch-Drunk Love ****½ (2002, Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 797
Adam Sandler is on dazzling form as Barry Egan, a businessman with seven sisters and a rage problem. Blackmailed after contacting a sex line, he falls for cute Lena Leonard (Emily Watson). This bold, dark-toned […]
Capote **** (2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 796
Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar for his eye-catching, brio performance as the destructively selfish gay author Truman Capote in director Bennett Miller’s gruelling, disturbing and depressing story of the five years Capote spent on […]
Almost Famous **** (2000, Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 610
Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning 2000 film is a semi-autobiographical treat from the maker of Jerry Maguire. Patrick Fugit (aged 18) stars in his feature debut as William Miller, a thrilled 15-year-old rock fan, who long […]
25th Hour – Classic Film Review 480
In 2002, director Spike Lee turns in a particularly gritty, provocative, moving and emotionally satisfying movie. Edward Norton is scaldingly good as convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan sentenced to a seven-year jail term, but enjoying his last 24 hours […]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire *** (2013, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is more or less just a rerun of the first one in the series, 2012’s The Hunger Games, with a cliffhanging ending. The story is almost exactly the same as […]
Magnolia ***** (1999, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 319
In 2000 Tom Cruise won the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor and his third Oscar nomination, playing one of the dozen main characters of this brilliant, quite extraordinary multi-drama of intertwined lives unfolding one cataclysmic day in the San […]