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Posts Tagged "2000s"

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The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

Lady Bird *** (2017, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lois Smith, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet) – Movie Review

Lady Bird has its charms, a lot of them, but is way over-praised. It is best to come to it fresh, without knowledge or expectations of it. Then it might well charm and impress. It […]

Feb, 25

Rollerball * (2002, Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Naveen Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 2963

In a future world of 2005 with neither war nor crime, the public’s aggression is channelled into the ultra-violent sport of rollerball, a kind of basketball played on spiked motorbikes and deadly skates. Director John McTiernan’s […]

Oct, 06

Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961

Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]

Oct, 06

We Were Soldiers **** (2002, Mel Gibson, Chris Klein, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear) – Classic Movie Review 1141

Writer-director Randall Wallace’s 2002 release stars Mel Gibson, who arms up for this raw, gung-ho Vietnam War film, in which he stars as real-life Lt Col Hal Moore, who leads an American force into ‘Nam […]

Apr, 23

The Kid *** (2000, Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1054

Walt Disney’s loveable, charming 2000 life-crisis comedy is safely based on a decent screenplay by Audrey Wells, a writer and director known for Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), George of the Jungle (1997) and Shall We Dance (2004). Bruce Willis […]

Apr, 05

The Grinch [How the Grinch Stole Christmas] **** (2000, Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski) – Classic Movie Review 496

Jim Carrey is at his hilarious best as Dr Seuss’s famous curmudgeon, The Grinch, who resolves to stop everyone enjoying the festive season in this big budget ($123million) remake of the classic book and cartoon […]

Dec, 10

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