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Alibi Ike *** (1935, Joe E Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 10,091

Director Ray Enright’s daffy 1935 comedy Alibi Ike is a good dizzy showcase for the wacky talents of very likeable comic Joe E Brown as Frank X Farrell, an offbeat rookie baseball pitcher who is having a bad day when he is abducted by crazy gamblers who want Farrell to throw the World Series. To explain… Continue reading Alibi Ike *** (1935, Joe E Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 10,091

Sylvester Stallone is in low gear for director Renny Harlin’s pounding 2001 motor-race movie Driven, in which a thumping rock score battles the roar of Indy car engines as drivers try to ram each other into the wall. Crusty old team boss Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) calls in former racing star Joe Tanto (Stallone) to… Continue reading Driven ** (2001, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 8876

That nice Kevin Bacon first appeared as a fraternity novice in National Lampoon’s Animal House back in 1978 and throughout the Eighties, greatly entertained us with such frivolities as Footloose. But, somewhere along the line, with films like Criminal Law (1988) and The River Wild, film-makers tapped into the wild side of Kevin Bacon. Here… Continue reading Murder in the First **** (1995, Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H Macy, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey, Mia Kirshner) – Classic Movie Review 4325