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Drag Me to Hell *** (2009, Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Chelcie Ross, Molly Cheek, Adriana Barraza) – Classic Movie Review 3352

Despite lots of sick laughs and soppy scares, and a likeable air of daft creepiness, this is still no more than a thin and silly horror flick. But, still, it’s entertaining. Its main saving grace […]

Feb, 13

Quiz Show *** (1994, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2254

Director Robert Redford conscientiously probes the circumstances, characters and issues surrounding the scandal attached to American TV’s rigging of the then famous 1950s quiz show Twenty One. It was so popular that fifty million people watched […]

Mar, 11

Unforgettable * (1996, Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 1618

John Dahl, the director of the neo film noir modern classics Kill Me Again, Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, comes a cropper this time with this, ironically, totally forgettable 1996 sci-fi mystery thriller. […]

Sep, 01

Amistad **** (1997, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Matthew McConaughey, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 1198

Anthony Hopkins gives as grandstanding turn as former US President John Quincy Adams in this true-life tale of the cargo of newly captured Mende African slaves aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, which ran into […]

May, 10

State and Main (2000, William C Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Film Review 1122

Writer-director David Mamet’s known for his rather egg-heady plays and movies, but here in 2000 he tackles an easy-going, old-style satire of film-making, film folk and the movie business, which is far more entertaining than penetrating or […]

Apr, 20

Mumford (1999, Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee) – Classic Film Review 1115

Producer-writer-director Lawrence Kasdan‘s pleasant enough 1999 film stars Loren Dean as a man who assumes a false identity as a psychologist called Dr Mickey Mumford and uses his intuitive skills to help the neurotic residents of a […]

Apr, 19

The American President ***½ (1995, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J Fox, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 945

Producer-director Rob Reiner’s 1995 romantic comedy drama stars Michael Douglas as widowed US President Andrew Shepherd, who seizes his chance for love and goes after political lobbyist journalist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening). This amusing, […]

Mar, 19

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