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The Impostors *** (1998, Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 1691

Writer-star-director Stanley Tucci’s freewheeling 1998 old-style slapstick comedy is engagingly silly, fast-moving entertainment. Tucci and Oliver Platt do a Laurel and Hardy double act as Arthur and Maurice, out-of-work actors on the run – from just […]

Sep, 20

Funny Bones **** (1995, Lee Evans, Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, Ian McNeice) – Movie Review 1690

Genius is at large in co-writer/director Peter Chelsom’s extraordinary and ambitious if erratic and over-long 1995 British comedy. The sporadically hilarious Brit comic Lee Evans is brilliant in this very odd, disorganised and rambling movie […]

Sep, 20

Chef *** (2014, Jon Favreau) – Movie Review

Jon Favreau writes, directs and stars as talented but obstinate chef Carl Casper, who falls out with his restaurant boss (Dustin Hoffman), quits his chef job and starts up selling from a food truck in this […]

Jun, 26

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

Lake Placid **** (1999, Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleason, Betty White) – Classic Movie Review 266

Intense, suspenseful, witty and often hilarious, director Steve Miner’s and writer David E Kelley’s tongue-in-cheek 1999 monster movie Lake Placid is a great fun scare ride. It is one of the best of its popular but […]

Oct, 02

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