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Turner & Hooch ***½ (1989, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3824

Tom Hanks stars in Roger Spottiswoode’s sweet and amusing, sit-up-and-beg-to-love-me 1989 comedy as meticulous and fastidious cop Detective Scott Turner who investigates a brutal murder with the help of a big, messy mutt called Hooch (Beasley the dog), […]

Jun, 08

The Incredibles **** (2004, Craig T Nelson, Samuel L Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Brad Bird) – Classic Movie Review 2648

Retired superheroes Mr Incredible and Elastigirl are called back to action on a secret assignment. Little do they know that Syndrome, once rejected as Incrediboy, is out to destroy all superheroes… This clever Pixar/Disney 2004 […]

Jun, 27

Poltergeist II: The Other Side *** (1986, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein) – Classic Movie Review 2502

Those pesky unfriendly Poltergeist spirits come back to haunt the Freeling family from Tobe Hooper’s 1982 hit Poltergeist, in director Brian Gibson’s fair-to-middling, entirely satisfactory 1986 sequel, with some good scares. The main stars are […]

May, 19

Poltergeist **** (1982, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein) – Classic Movie Review 2469

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper’s spirited, extremely intense 1982 horror movie Poltergeist is the first and best of the three original Eighties Poltergeist ghost stories. It is co-written and co-produced by Steven […]

May, 10

Silkwood **** (1983, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher) – Classic Movie Review 1869

This 1983 little gem from the late, great director Mike Nichols is a highly intelligent, high-profile real-life thriller, taken by socially concerned screenwriters Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen from the headlines of the day. Nichols said […]

Nov, 22

All the Right Moves *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Craig T Nelson, Lea Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1522

Director Michael Chapman’s sensitive 1983 sports and coming-of-age drama All the Right Moves provides an engaging early vehicle for Tom Cruise. The megastar-to-be is on compelling and convincing form as Stefen Djordjevic, an eager and stubborn […]

Aug, 05

The Skulls *** (2000, Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Steve Harris, William Petersen, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 466

Joshua Jackson stars as Luke McNamara, a naive but ambitious, upwardly mobile college senior student from a working class background, aiming to gain acceptance into Harvard Law. He is persuaded to join a posh, elitist college secret […]

Dec, 02

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