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Get Shorty **** (1995, John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, David Paymer, Bette Midler) – Classic Movie Review 368
Gene Hackman has a scene-stealing field day as sleazeball Hollywood producer Harry Zimm, in the highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get Shorty. Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s highly amusing 1995 black comedy thriller film Get […]
Analyze This **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 345
Director Harold Ramis’s 1999 laughter-raiser is a hilarious Mafia comedy, with Robert De Niro deliciously sending up his Don Vito Corleone role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Crystal ideally cast as the nervous […]
Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]
Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk] ***** (1960, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 236
Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]
Once Upon a Time in America ***** (1984, Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 139
Robert De Niro and James Woods star as Jewish New York hoodlum buddies in Sergio Leone’s exhilarating 1984 gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America. In his final film, Sergio Leone’s great 1984 epic […]
Some Like It Hot ***** (1959, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 97
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by […]
Shoot the Pianist [Tirez sur le Pianist] **** (1960, Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 93
François Truffaut turns David Goodis’s thriller novel Down There into an exuberant, quirky, stylish personal take on the Hollywood B-movie thriller for his second feature, the 1960 film Tirez sur le Pianist [Shoot the Pianist]. […]