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Sully: Miracle on the Hudson **** (2016, Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney) – Movie Review

Director Clint Eastwood’s 2106 real-life rescue drama Sully is just great, a warm, emotional story, extremely well told. No one could have played Sully but Tom Hanks, who is perfect in the part. It is an ideal […]

Nov, 11 · in Uncategorized

A Nightmare on Elm Street ** (2010, Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Katie Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4633

Director Samuel Bayer’s 2010 horror thriller brings back Mr Pizza Face Freddy Krueger – and this time Jackie Earle Haley provides the ideal face in this slick but pointless re-imagining of Wes Craven’s 1984 seminal horror movie A […]

Nov, 10 · in Uncategorized

Cherrybomb *** (2009, Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Kimberley Nixon) – Classic Movie Review 4632

Rupert Grint stars as teenager Malachy who is spending his holidays working at the Titanic leisure centre and enjoying the company of his dangerous drug-dealing best buddy Luke (Robert Sheehan) in the Belfast suburbs in summer. […]

Nov, 10

Adam **** (2009, Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison) – Classic Movie Review 4631

Hugh’s a pretty boy then? Stoke-on-Trent actor Hugh Dancy’s sweet kind of good looks have set him on the profitable path of Hollywood romances and romcoms like Ella Enchanted, The Jane Austen Book Club and […]

Nov, 10

Twilight of Honor [The Charge Is Murder] *** (1963, Richard Chamberlain, Claude Rains, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4630

Richard Chamberlain, a TV superstar as Dr Kildare, gives a smooth acting turn in his first movie starring role as a young lawyer who defends a suspected murderer, in the 1963 courtroom thriller film Twilight […]

Nov, 10

Hot Tub Time Machine * (2010, John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Sebastian Stan, Lyndsy Fonseca, Crispin Glover, Chevy Chase) – Classic Movie Review 4629

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. The usually highly engaging John Cusack blots his copybook with director Steve Pink’s horrible, smutty, foul-mouthed, feel-bad 2010 time-travelling farce. Cusack plays Adam in which he and a […]

Nov, 10

Couples Retreat *** (2009, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Faizon Love, Kali Hawk, Jean Reno) – Classic Movie Review 4628

Director Peter Billingsley’s 2009 Couples Retreat might only be a formulaic, lowbrow comedy but, with its first-rate cast and decent premise, it knows how to get you laughing. Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell play a troubled […]

Nov, 10

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