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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco,
Marilyn Sokol,
James Madio,
Patrick McGaw
Director:
Scott Kalvert
The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high-school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realise that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with hi...
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Al Pacino,
Johnny Depp,
Michael Madsen,
Bruno Kirby,
James Russo
Director:
Mike Newell
Based on a memoir by former undercover cop Joe Pistone (whose daring and unprecedented infiltration of the New York Mob scene earned him a place in the federal witness protection program), Donnie Brasco is like a de-romanticised, de-mythologised version of The Godfather. It offers an uncommonly detailed, privileged glimpse inside the world of organised crime from the perspective of the little guys at the bottom of Mafia hierarchy rather than from the kingpins at the top. Donnie Brasco is not only one of the great modern-day gangster movies to put in the company of The Godfather films and GoodFellas, but it is also one of the great underc...
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Robert De Niro,
Kevin Bacon,
Brad Pitt,
Jason Patric,
Billy Crudup
Director:
Barry Levinson
The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be misleading. Knowing this, Sleepers becomes problematic because it's too neat, too clean, too manipulative in terms of legal justice and dramatic impact to be truly convincing. And yet, with its stellar cast directed by Barry Levinson, it succeeds as gripping entertainment, and its tale of complex morality--despite a dubious emphasis on homophobic revenge--is sufficiently provocative. It's about four boys in New York's ...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Robert De Niro,
Sean Penn,
Demi Moore,
Hoyt Axton,
Bruno Kirby
Director:
Neil Jordan
REGION 2 DVD - DUTCH IMPORT - OFFICIAL RELEASE.
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Richard Dreyfuss,
Danny DeVito,
Barbara Hershey,
John Mahoney,
Jackie Gayle
Director:
Barry Levinson
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Robin Williams,
Forest Whitaker,
Tung Thanh Tran,
Chintara Sukapatana,
Bruno Kirby
Director:
Barry Levinson
Good Morning Vietnam is a more than usually human take on America's most controversial war, an often poignant and always entertaining fictionalisation of the Vietnam years of DJ Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams). Cronauer is employed as the voice of the US Armed Forces radio in South East Asia, but it soon emerges that his idea of entertaining the troops and the Army's are poles apart. This isn't a biopic--director Barry Levinson doesn't give any detail of Cronauer's life before Vietnam--instead it's about Cronauer discovering a better understanding of the war, the people and himself. Interspersed with the radio sequences is a gentle plot which follows Cronauer as h...
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco,
Marilyn Sokol,
James Madio,
Patrick McGaw
Director:
Scott Kalvert
The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high-school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realise that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with hi...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Rob Reiner,
Michael McKean,
Christopher Guest,
Kimberly Stringer,
Chazz Dominguez
Director:
Rob Reiner
The comedic genius of This Is Spinal Tap is confirmed by the fact that a majority of studio executives were utterly clueless about its brilliance. As a first-time director and cowriter, Rob Reiner must have felt simultaneously frustrated and elated, knowing that the obtuseness of movie executives was a clue to his debut project's potential greatness. Now, of course, the clarity of hindsight and the rarity of superior satire have turned This Is Spinal Tap into one of the funniest documentary spoofs of all time. Reiner and the members of "Tap" (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer) couldn't have picked a better target for their satire, because heav...
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Michael J. Fox,
Geena Davis,
Hugh Laurie,
Jonathan Lipnicki,
Nathan Lane
Director:
Rob Minkoff
This live-action version of EB White's novel doesn't have quite the magic of, say, Toy Story. Stuart Little is squarely aimed, and successfully so, at the 4- to 10-year-old viewer. Does this make it a bad family film? Not in the slightest. The gee-whiz visual effects (created by original Star Wars wizard John Dykstra) and the film's ebullient wholesomeness make this a welcome addition to the home library. In EB White's world, it's hardly surprising that human parents would adopt "outside their species". The smooth-talking mouse Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) seems the perfect new child for parents Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie, especially with a...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Billy Crystal,
Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,
Bruno Kirby,
Steven Ford
Director:
Rob Reiner
Highly influential, When Harry Met Sally revitalised (in 1988) the moribund romantic comedy genre, made a superstar of Meg Ryan, and in two minutes of heavy breathing gave cinema one of its most memorable scenes. Set over 12 years in New York, young professionals Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) go from meeting to becoming friends to, well--this is a romantic comedy. Benefiting from an observant and witty script by Nora Ephron, it also offers insight into the differences between men and women. More importantly it's very funny, though the most hilarious scene is also the least believable: Sally is really too conventional to do that in a crowded restaura...
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