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The Sweet Ride *** (1968, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Denver) – Classic Movie Review 8738

Director Harvey Hart’s appealing 1968 The Sweet Ride features some of the aimless late-Swinging Sixties beach boys and girls of California’s sun-soaked Malibu coast, who don’t want to grow up, though events conspire to teach […]

Jul, 20

Don’t Make Waves ** (1967, Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, David Draper, Jim Backus, Mort Sahl, Edgar Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 6320

‘What the Italians do with a bed… the Americans do with a beach!’ This 1967 beach farce Don’t Make Waves sure looks good on paper. The director (Alexander Mackendrick) and star (Tony Curtis) of the 1957 […]

Nov, 26

Ride the Wild Surf ** (1964, Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter, Peter Brown, Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden) – Classic Movie Review 5963

Sixties heartthrobs Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter and Peter Brown ride the Hawaiian surf and romance lovelies Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden and Susan Hart, in director Don Taylor’s frothy and flaky 1964 Ride the Wild Surf, […]

Aug, 24

The Big Bounce * (2004, Owen Wilson, Sara Foster, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, Vinnie Jones, Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Bebe Neuwirth, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 4460

Director George Armitage’s 2004 remake of the Ryan O’Neal-Leigh Taylor-Young 1969 caper thriller The Big Bounce is a total non-event and no better – actually worse – than the vapid, long forgotten original. With an […]

Oct, 06

Fast Times at Ridgemont High [Fast Times] **** (1982, Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 4352

This often funny and fresh 1982 American high school comedy marks the screen-writing debut of Cameron Crowe, who went to write and direct the 1996 hit Jerry Maguire. It is a busy and engaging, if plotless, […]

Sep, 12

Escobar – Paradise Lost ***½ (2015, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac) – Movie Review

Josh Hutcherson stars as a young Canadian surfer who goes to live on the paradise beach in Colombia with his brother (Brady Corbet), and meets Maria (Claudia Traisac), the woman of his dreams. But then heaven turns into […]

Aug, 20

Dogtown and Z-Boys **** (2001, dir Stacy Peralta) – Classic Movie Review 1494

‘ ‘Old man, look at your life,’ sings Neil Young on the fantastic vintage 70s soundtrack, and here we go. Narrated by Sean Penn, co-writer/director Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary is an exhilarating experience, with pioneering 1970s […]

Jul, 30

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