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Intolerable Cruelty *** (2003, George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones) – Classic Movie Review 1239

Gorgeous George Clooney is the making of the Coen Brothers’ entertaining 2003 old-style Hollywood romantic comedy, but with a deliciously dark, cynical edge. The Coen Brothers dark and cynical? That’s a weird one! Clooney plays […]

May, 22

The Haunting *** (1999, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 997

American movies fans forked out more than $100 million for director Jan de Bont’s daft but ingenious and amusing 1999 supernatural chiller. It’s the old, old haunted house story. With no acting really required, Liam […]

Mar, 26

Entrapment (1999, Connery, Zeta Jones) – Classic Film Review 976

Director Jon Amiel’s very sprightly, enjoyably old-style 1999 caper thriller finds Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones proving a well-paired star team. Connery plays Mac, an ageing art thief, and she’s Gin, a sexy young […]

Mar, 24

High Fidelity **** (2000, John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 876

Director Stephen Frears’s amusing and very popular 2000 comedy High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the 30-something owner of the Championship Vinyl record shop, who reminisces about his lost loves. It is the slightly […]

Mar, 07

Ocean’s 12 **** (2004, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vincent Cassel, Julia Roberts, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac) – Classic Movie Review 697

George Clooney and Brad Pitt are the quintessence of cool here as crooks Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan in director Steven Soderbergh’s entertainingly slick and infectiously larky 2004 sequel to the 2001 hit Ocean’s Eleven. […]

Jan, 15

The Terminal *** (2004, Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride) – Classic Movie Review 483

Director Steven Spielberg’s 2004 airport drama is fascinating and of course impeccably made. It’s warm hearted and amusing but it’s also rather lethargic, artificial and slightly lacking enough spontaneous charm. Real life is re-invented as a […]

Dec, 07

Chicago ****½ (2002, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 416

Renée Zellweger (as Roxy Hart) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as Velma Kelly) are sensational, singing and dancing like grand old troupers, as heartless molls on death row, in director Rob Marshall’s red-hot, six Oscar-winning movie of Fred […]

Nov, 17

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