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- The Flying Scot [Mailbag Robbery] *** (1957, Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford) – Classic Movie Review 12,864
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- Lock Up ** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 12,862
- Stupid Boy [Garçon Stupide] *** (2004, Pierre Chatagny, Natacha Koutchoumov, Rui Alves) – Classic Movie Review 12,861
- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
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Running Brave *** (1983, Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron, Jeff McCracken, Graham Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4994
Director Donald Shebib’s winning 1983 Canadian sports drama tells the engaging true tale of Billy Mills, the Sioux Indian, who, after quitting his tribe to make his mark in athletics, runs to glory in the […]
Hidaldo ***½ (2004, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 4164
Viggo Mortensen stars in his first post-Lord of the Rings movie as 1890s real-life Pony Express cowboy courier Frank T Hopkins, who takes his mustang Hidaldo to the Arabian Desert to compete in a big-prize […]
Come on George! *** (1939, George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Cyril Raymond, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 3821
Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]
The Great Race ***** (1965, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 2737
Director Blake Edwards re-teams the brilliant Some Like It Hot stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as The Great Race’s moustachioed villain and handsome white-suited hero, who fight it out on the road from New […]
Girlhood [Bande de filles] *** (2014, Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh) – Movie Review
Writer-director Céline Sciamma‘s engrossing French coming-of-age epic tackles the thorny though much-examined issues of race, class and non-conformity, but in a fresh and furious way. Karidja Touré (actually 20 at the time) is remarkable in […]
Liberty Heights **** (1999, Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Bebe Neuwirth) – Classic Movie Review 1546
Writer-director Barry Levinson’s posh, intelligent, enjoyable if rambling 1999 coming-of-age drama centres on two Jewish brothers in Baltimore in 1954-55. It boasts powerful, committed performances from a strong cast headed by Adrien Brody, Ben Foster , Joe […]
Chariots of Fire ***** (1981, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1399
Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]