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Girl, Interrupted **** (1999, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto) – Classic Movie Review 3909

Director James Mangold’s excellent biographical drama is based on writer Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the Sixties. It is a powerful, harrowing movie, along the lines of One […]

Jun, 25

Meet John Doe ****½ (1941, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 3848

Director Frank Capra’s vintage 1941 drama Meet John Doe stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan. Robert Riskin’s screenplay is based on the story The Life and Death of John Doe by […]

Jun, 11

Dead Man’s Curve *** (1998, Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff, Keri Russell) – Classic Movie Review 3,816

Scream’s young star Matthew Lillard again shows off his acting skills effectively in writer-director Dan Rosen’s engrossingly twisting and teasing 1998 American black comedy teen thriller film Dead Man’s Curve [The Curve]. The clever, twisty plot […]

Jun, 07

Les Enfants Terribles **** (1950, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima) – Classic Movie Review 3801

French film noir movie-maker Jean-Pierre Melville is an unexpected choice as writer-director for this surrealist and poetic 1950 film version of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel about the extremely odd relationship of a teenage brother and […]

Jun, 05

Beyond Bedlam * (1994, Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3792

‘Psychological Terror Beyond Your Wildest Nightmares.’ Co-writer/director Vadim Jean’s 1994 British psychological murder thriller is an unappealing, far-fetched and slackly handled movie. In the story, based on the novel Bedlam by John Brosnan (writing as Harry Adam […]

May, 30

The Nice Guys **** (2016, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Kim Basinger) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Shane Black’s invigoratingly dark and cynical action comedy thriller is just great. It manages to be both funny and exciting, and a makes for a brilliant, exhilarating evening in the cinema for grown-ups. Russell Crowe […]

May, 18

Friend Request ** (2016, Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette) – Movie Review

Alycia Debnam Carey stars as attractive, confident and popular college student Laura, who naturally has many, many friends, both on and off line. She’s our heroine and she is also a rather nice person and […]

Apr, 20

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