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The General’s Daughter *** (1999, John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2965

John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]

Oct, 07

The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2,272

The double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama film The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and entertaining. It’s Streisand and Redford together! Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 […]

Mar, 16

The Getaway **** (1994, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2,228

The sizzling 1994 action crime thriller The Getaway is a surprise remake of the 1972 favourite. This time Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as the crooks who have to rob a race-track alongside psychotic […]

Mar, 01

Salvador ***** (1986, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 2076

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s brilliantly fired-up, exhilarating 1986 political thriller is a report from troubled Central America and is based on the real-life adventures of American photo-journalist Richard Boyle (played by a sizzling James Woods) who […]

Jan, 13

Against All Odds **** (1984, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 2045

Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]

Jan, 04

The Gambler **** (1974, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 1974

Director Karel Reisz’s visceral but cerebral 1974 thriller stars James Caan as college literature professor Axel Freed, who has a secret vice as a compulsive gambler with a masochistic urge to lose and an inability to stop […]

Dec, 19

True Crime ** (1999, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1828

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s 1999 potboiler thriller has stock characters and a hokey old plot about Steve Everett, a burnt-out wreck of a journalist (Eastwood). The Oakland Tribune journalist Everett, a man consumed with desire for […]

Nov, 10

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