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Step Up 2: The Streets ** (2008, Adam G Sevani, Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco, Will Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 4639

Director Jon M Chu’s 2010 largely unrelated Step Up dance movie sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the surprise 2006 dance film hit, is bright and sexy enough, reasonably entertaining and overall just about OK. It stars Adam G Sevani […]

Nov, 12 · in Uncategorized

Step Up 3D * (2010, Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Kathy Najimy) – Classic Movie Review 4638

Hey, guys, is this really the best you can do? Returning director Jon M Chu’s 2010 more or less totally unrelated Step Up second sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the 2006 and 2008 dance film hits, is […]

Nov, 12 · in Uncategorized

American Pastoral ** (2016, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Molly Parker, Samantha Mathis, Rupert Evans) – Movie Review

Philip Roth’s novel won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 but you would never know why from this earnest, sincere and well meaning but ponderous and struggling 2016 drama from Ewan McGregor in his […]

Nov, 12

The Young Philadelphians **** (1959, Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Billie Burke, John Williams, Otto Kruger, Robert Vaughn, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 4,637

The 1959 American legal drama film The Young Philadelphians is based on the 1956 novel The Philadelphian by Richard P Powell, and stars Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith.  Director Vincent Sherman’s soapy 1959 novel-to-film transfer The Young Philadelphians is trashy but […]

Nov, 12

Grown Ups *** (2010, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 4636

When their beloved high-school basketball coach dies, five pretty dim, randy and unfit American middle-aged blokes reunite for the funeral and then plan a Fourth of July holiday weekend with their families. A lot of […]

Nov, 11

Taking Woodstock **** (2009, Demetri Martin, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy, Emile Hirsch, Paul Dano, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Kelli Garner) – Classic Movie Review 4635

It’s the summer of love in 1969. Elliot Teichberg – aka the original source book author Elliot Tiber – is a struggling young gay interior designer working at his parents’ rundown motel in up-state New […]

Nov, 11

The Taking of Pelham 123 *** (2009, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 4634

Director Tony Scott relentlessly ensures that his remake of the classic 1974 heist thriller The Taking of Pelham 123  is slick, tense, fast moving and flashy. Based on the novel by John Godey, it is all about […]

Nov, 11

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