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The Fog * (1980, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers) – Classic Movie Review 2969

Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]

Oct, 10

Freaky Friday *** (2003, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 2864

The Walt Disney studio enjoyably remakes its fondly remembered 1976 hit and 1995 TV movie, generation-swap, with Lindsay Lohan starring as Anna Coleman, who magically exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her stressed-out single mom Tess Coleman (Jamie […]

Aug, 29

The Tailor of Panama *** (2001, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 1439

Co-writer/director John Boorman’s 2001 thriller The Tailor of Panama stars Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a British spy in Panama who employs the services of a well-connected Cockney tailor (Geoffrey Rush) to relay sensitive information […]

Jul, 17

Veronica Mars ** (2014, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Jamie Lee Curtis, Percy Daggs III, Gaby Hoffmann, Ryan Hansen, Jerry O’Connell, James Franco) – Movie Review

Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]

Mar, 14

Virus *** (1999, Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 827

Director John Bruno’s 1999 monster movie, based on the comic books by Chuck Pfarrer, is good fun. The 100 minutes just rattles along. It’s Alien on the ocean, as an American crew takes refuge in […]

Feb, 13

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later *** (1998, Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 649

  The seventh Halloween movie from 1998 sees Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode for the first time since Halloween 2 in 1981 to celebrate the original Halloween movie’s 20th birthday. As you no doubt […]

Jan, 08

A Fish Called Wanda ***** (1988, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline) – Classic Movie Review 350

Crooks get more than they bargain for when they try to pull a London diamond heist since only the crime’s mastermind knows where the jewels are – and he’s been locked away by the cops. […]

Nov, 02

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