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Training Day ***½ (2001, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Harris Yulin, Cliff Curtis, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes) – Classic Film Review 970

Director Antoine Fuqua’s tough, well-made but depressing 2001 LA police thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, who land a couple of really showy roles as good cop, bad cop. They are rookie Jake Hoyt and seasoned Detective […]

Mar, 23

Before Sunset ***** (2004, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 858

It’s 2004, and nine years on from their first tentative but passionate encounter in Richard Linklater’s 1995 romantic drama Before Sunrise (1995), Jesse (Ethan Hawke), now a writer, is back in Europe for a book […]

Mar, 02

Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater) – Classic Film Review 857

Co-writer/director Richard Linklater’s wonderful, magically romantic 1995 drama stars Ethan Hawke as Jesse, an American tourist in Europe who meets a French girl Céline (Julie Delpy) on a train. Jesse talks Céline into alighting at […]

Mar, 02

Great Expectations (1998, Ethan Hawke) Classic Film Review 842

Here’s director Alfonso (Gravity) Cuarón’s flashily filmed 1998 American revised and modernised version of the Charles Dickens novel, aimed accurately in style and tone at pop-video teenagers. There’s surprising, but largely successful casting in Ethan […]

Feb, 18

Getaway – Film Review

Ethan Hawke stars as a former racing superstar called Brent Magna, who’s ordered by a mystery villain to steal a state-of-the-art car and complete a series of crazy, high-speed, dangerous daredevil stunts against the clock […]

Dec, 06

Explorers **** (1985, Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Bobby Fite) – Classic Movie Review 297

In director Joe Dante’s highly engaging 1985 sci-fi fantasy, a trio of American schoolboys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson) hastily launch themselves into space in a rickety home-made starship and encounter wacky and weird […]

Oct, 19

Gattaca **** (1997, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 226

It’s the near-distant future. Bookish hero Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) overcomes his physical frailties like his weak heart and poor eyesight by taking on the characteristics of a foreign superman Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) who’s […]

Sep, 06

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