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Posts Tagged "Mark Wahlberg"

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The Yards **** (2000, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan) – Classic Movie Review 1429

Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]

Jul, 14

Planet of the Apes *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 1414

In 2001, everyone was going bananas for director Tim Burton’s ape-tising remake of the 1967 movie. Mark Wahlberg takes on Charlton Heston’s old role as US Air Force astronaut Captain Leo Davidson who, chasing a chimp […]

Jul, 11

Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

The Perfect Storm *** (2000, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C Reilly, William Fichtner) – Classic Movie Review 999

In the stirring, fact-based 2000 adventure drama film The Perfect Storm, set in New England in October 1991, a team of fisherman head off aboard the Andrea Gail on a stormy fishing trip into the […]

Mar, 26

Rock Star *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Dominic West, Jason Flemyng, Timothy Spall, Timothy Olyphant) – Classic Movie Review 854

Mark Wahlberg shows his star quality as a copy machine repairer, pop fan and, by night, lead singer of Pennsylvania’s premiere Steel Dragon rock tribute band. Wahlberg’s Chris ‘Izzy’ Cole grabs his chance to join the actual Steel […]

Mar, 01

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

Lone Survivor **** (2013, Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Eric Bana) – Movie Review

Writer-director Peter Berg tells the true story of Marcus Luttrell and his US Navy Seal team, who set out on a mission to capture or kill the notorious al Qaeda Taliban leader Ahmad Shahd in late June […]

Jan, 29

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