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Posts Tagged "christmas eve"

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Backfire *** (1950, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 7554

The 1950 film noir crime thriller Backfire is a satisfyingly complicated and labyrinthine murder mystery. Gordon MacRae stars as war vet searching for his framed murder-suspect buddy (Edmond O’Brien) and tangling with a femme fatale […]

Sep, 09

The Family Man *** (2000, Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek, Josef Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 4855

Director Brett Ratner’s nice-spirited 2000 comedy drama stars Nicolas Cage as successful banker Jack Campbell, who is given the chance to see what his life would have been really like if he had taken a […]

Jan, 07

Scrooge *** (1935, Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Athene Seyler, Oscar Asche, Barbara Everest, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Marie Ney, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 4809

British actor-manager Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and plays the old Victorian grouch Ebenezer Scrooge, who has visions of the past, present and future and is terrified enough finally to stop being a miser. Director […]

Dec, 23

Bad Santa 2 ** (2016, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Christina Hendricks) – Movie Review

Billy Bob Thornton returns as Willie Soke from the 2003 hit Bad Santa, and teams up again with Tony Cox as his angry little sidekick Marcus Skimore to knock off sexy Diane (Christina Hendricks)’s Chicago […]

Nov, 28

The Night Before *** (2015, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, Jillian Bell, Michael Shannon, Lizzy Caplan, Mindy Kaling) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie star as boyhood friends Ethan, Isaac and Chris, who decide their this year’s Christmas Eve annual reunion night of debauchery and hilarity is to be their last. Well, look, they’re 30 […]

Dec, 04

Tangerine *** (2015, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Arsen Grigoryan, Clu Gulager) – Movie Review

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez stars as Sin-Dee, a transgender prostitute just out of jail, who finds out from her best friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) that her pimp boyfriend has been unfaithful. So Sin-Dee tears through Tinseltown on […]

Nov, 11

Il capitale umano (Human Capital) **** (2013, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Matilde Gioli, Valeria Golino) – Movie Review

In northern Italy, a car knocks a cyclist off the road during the night before Christmas Eve. Then the destinies of two contrasting families, one very rich and the other comfortably middle class, are irrevocably bound together through […]

Sep, 27

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