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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

Goin’ South **** (1978, Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 937

Jack Nicholson directs an enjoyable, rollicking romantic comedy Western, with a delightfully quirky screenplay based on the story by John Herman Shaner and Al Ramrus. It’s the middle one of only three films Nicholson has directed, […]

Mar, 18

Animal House [National Lampoon’s Animal House] ***** (1978, John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, John Vernon, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 50

In 1978, the year of Eraserhead and The Deer Hunter, we were also laughing, thank goodness. Debut director John Landis’s outrageous teen comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House is extremely bold and hysterically funny. A landmark movie, […]

Jul, 14

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