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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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Reviews

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

Eat Pray Love **** (2010, Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis) – Classic Movie Review 4627

Julia Roberts stars as disillusioned American divorcée Liz Gilbert, who heads for Italy and finds the joy of eating and drinking. She then abandons that for the power of prayer in India and finally discovers […]

Nov, 10

Mirrors 2 **½ (2010, Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Evan Jones, William Katt, Christy Romano) – Classic Movie Review 4626

And so, the terror lives on as Nick Stahl stars as our new hero Max Matheson in director Víctor García’s well-crafted 2010 horror thriller sequel to the 2008 hit Mirrors. This time, our hero is Max, […]

Nov, 10

Mirrors **½ (2008, Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng, John Shrapnel, Cameron Boyce, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 4625

Kiefer Sutherland does his usual briskly competent job in Mirrors (2008) as Ben Carson, a troubled ex-NYPD detective who takes a job as a night-watch security guard at the abandoned Mayflower Department Store devastated by […]

Nov, 10

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