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Ghostbusters II *** (1989, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, David Margulies, Kurt Fuller, Janet Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 3265

A massive river of ectoplasm and renewed spectral activity have hit New York. Who ya gonna call again? Yes, the retired Ghostbusters get back in business. The whole team of ghostbusters is back from the 1984 original super-hit in producer-director […]

Jan, 13

The House of Mirth **** (2000, Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 2,810

Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]

Aug, 14

The Blues Brothers ***** (1980, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 2606

Director John Landis spent what was then a movie fortune ($30million) of Universal Studios’ money on this wild, wacky and wayward 1980 car-crash chase comedy. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi star in their most famous roles, re-created […]

Jun, 15

1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941

Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]

Dec, 10

Get On Up *** (2014, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd) – Movie Revie

After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]

Nov, 18

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion *** (2001, Woody Allen, Helen Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 1803

Writer-director-star Woody Allen’s carefree 2001 comedy is fun up to a point, with enough funny gags and amusing situations to keep the mood happy and the movie likeable. In the daft, nostalgic yarn, Allen plays […]

Nov, 04

Feeling Minnesota *** (1996, Keanu Reeves, Vincent D’Onofrio, Cameron Diaz) – Classic Movie Review 1606

Feeling queasy, more like! Writer/director Steven Baigelman’s 1996 new-wave thriller is creditably ambitious and complex, if flawed and muddled – and no crowd-pleaser. Keanu Reeves and Vincent D’Onofrio star as grungy sibling rivals who start a […]

Aug, 30

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