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Feeling Minnesota *** (1996, Keanu Reeves, Vincent D’Onofrio, Cameron Diaz) – Classic Movie Review 1606

Feeling queasy, more like! Writer/director Steven Baigelman’s 1996 new-wave thriller is creditably ambitious and complex, if flawed and muddled – and no crowd-pleaser. Keanu Reeves and Vincent D’Onofrio star as grungy sibling rivals who start a […]

Aug, 30

Any Given Sunday **** (1999, Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, L L Cool J) – Classic Movie Review 1561

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1999 sports movie Any Given Sunday finds Al Pacino on blistering form as Tony D’Amato, an ageing crusty veteran professional football coach who has obsessively sacrificed his wife, family and personal life for […]

Aug, 17

The Other Woman (2014, Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann) – Movie Review

After level-headed lawyer Cameron Diaz discovers that her hunky boyfriend Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a married man, she soon meets the Mann he’s married to, Leslie Mann, the neurotic, clingy, whingey wife he’s been cheating on. Diaz tries to shake […]

Apr, 24

Very Bad Things *** (1998, Christian Slater, Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser) – Classic Movie Review 979

Writer-director Peter Berg’s 1998 black farce crime thriller is an intriguing mixed bag of grisly dark-toned fun. It can boast some Very Good Things (the star performances) as well as some Very Bad Things (the […]

Mar, 24

Being John Malkovich **** (1999, John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 818

Director Spike Jonze’s wonderfully odd, brilliantly clever, dazzlingly inventive fantasy comedy happily finds John Cusack on his best form. And there’s also the inestimable benefit of John Malkovich (as himself) gamely and brilliantly sending himself […]

Feb, 09

Knight and Day **** (2010, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 803

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz go all out for action in this most preposterous of comedy thrillers that makes the impossible plot of Mission: Impossible look, well, possible. Idiotic though director James Mangold’s 2010 movie […]

Feb, 05

My Best Friend’s Wedding **** (1997, Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett) – Classic Movie Review 771

Director P J Hogan’s delicious 1997 romcom finally provided a huge hit again for Julia Roberts, turning in a very decent comedy performance as a devious journalist who decides she wants her best buddy (Dermot […]

Jan, 29

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