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Bruce Almighty ***½ (2003, Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell, Lisa Ann Walter, Steve Carell, Nora Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4011

Jim Carrey is back on track in director Tom Shadyac’s 2003 comedy as Bruce Nolan, a troubled Buffalo New York TV reporter who gets fired, mugged and rows with his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston). There is only […]

Jul, 13 · in Uncategorized

The Electric Horseman *** (1979, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson, John Saxon, Allan Arbus, Wilford Brimley) – Classic Movie Review 4010

Director Sydney Pollack teams up with Robert Redford again in 1979 for an interesting, if weird mix of modern-day Western, media satire and populist romanticism. It teams Redford with Jane Fonda, his 1967 co-star in Barefoot in […]

Jul, 13 · in Uncategorized

Brubaker *** (1980, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Tim McIntire, M Emmet Walsh, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Albert Salmi) – Classic Movie Review 4,009

Robert Redford stars as a reforming prison warden in the liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller film Brubaker. Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting […]

Jul, 13

Lady in a Cage **** (1964, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Ann Sothern, Jeff Corey, Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Scatman Crothers) – Classic Movie Review 4008

Director Walter Grauman’s excellent 1964 thriller is tough, gripping and scary. It finds Olivia de Havilland well cast and on good form as Mrs Cornelia Hilyard, a wealthy widowed invalid authoress trapped a dozen feet short […]

Jul, 12

The Taking of Pelham 123 ****½ (1974, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller, Tony Roberts, James Broderick, Kenneth McMillan) – Classic Movie Review 4,007

The super-charged 1974 action crime thriller film The Taking of Pelham 123 is the real deal. Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo are irreplaceable.  It has been remade twice, but director Joseph […]

Jul, 12

Unstoppable **** (2010, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn, T J Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4006

All aboard for a fantastic, non-stop thrill ride as rail workers Frank and Will (Denzel Washington and Chris Pine) set off in a separate train to chase an unmanned, half-mile-long freight locomotive carrying a cargo […]

Jul, 12

Cecil B DeMented **½ (2000, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Maggie Gyllenhall) – Classic Movie Review 4005

Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]

Jul, 12

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