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Five Corners *** (1987, Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 11,204

Director Tony Bill’s 1987 crime drama/ thriller Five Corners stars Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff and John Turturro. The first filmed screenplay from Oscar-winning John Patrick Shanley is a strange tale of four young […]

May, 14

Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] ** (1987, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 10,410

Elisabeth Shue takes her first steps in Babysitting… Director Chris Columbus’s popular 1987 American teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] stars an attractive but anonymous-seeming young Elisabeth Shue, giving an engaging […]

Oct, 14

Look Back in Anger *** (1980, Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes, Fran Brill, Raymond Hardie) – Classic Movie Review 9809

The 1980 British film Look Back in Anger stars Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and is directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne’s classic play, […]

May, 23

Century ** (1993, Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 9647

Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff ambitiously tries to dig out the roots of the 20th century in the year 1899 (race, religion, feminism) in his 1993 drama film Century, in which young doctor Paul Reisner (Clive Owen) […]

Apr, 18

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle [4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle] *** (1987, Joëlle Miquel, Jessica Forde) – Classic Movie Review 9465

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s 1986 French film Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle [4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle] is a lesser but still delightful and fascinating work by the esteemed director of Claire’s Knee (1970). It […]

Mar, 05

The Hidden II * (1993, Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Michael Welden, Jovin Montanaro) – Classic Movie Review 8999

Writer-director Seth Pinsker’s 1994 sequel The Hidden II comes without any of the original stars (Kyle MacLachlan, Claudia Christian, Michael Nouri, Ed O’Ross, Clarence Felder, Clu Gulager) from the 1987 The Hidden. So it is […]

Oct, 21

I’ll Be Yours ** (1947, Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 7949

Deanna Durbin stars in the 1947 musical romantic comedy I’ll Be Yours as small-town young woman Louise Ginglebusher, who tries to help young lawyer George Prescott (Tom Drake) by getting him a job with rich […]

Dec, 28

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