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The Hudsucker Proxy **** (1994, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 1766

The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]

Oct, 13

Slap Shot **** (1977, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean) – Classic Movie Review 1427

Director George Roy Hill’s funny, fast and furious 1977 ice hockey comedy drama stars Paul Newman, who is on top form as Reggie Dunlop, an ageing player-coach sports star who plays dirty to win. His struggling Charlestown […]

Jul, 13

The Silver Chalice * (1954, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo) – Bad Movie 8

Director Victor Saville’s 1954 historical epic saga, based on the 1952 novel by Thomas B Costain, is a legendary bad movie. Its star, Paul Newman, took out a newspaper ad in America to ask people […]

Jul, 13

Harper [The Moving Target] **** (1966, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 1302

Director Jack Smight’s hard-boiled 1966 detective-mystery thriller casts Paul Newman in an ideal guise as Lew Harper, an archetypal Los Angeles mean streets private eye, who is hired by the rich, wounded and woeful Mrs […]

Jun, 07

The Towering Inferno ***** (1974, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 1207

A blaze breaks out in the Glass Tower, a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the glitzy opening ceremony attended by a host of city celebrities, in director John Guillermin‘s terrifyingly nail-biting 1974 skyscraper-on-fire movie The […]

May, 12

The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873

Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]

Mar, 06

Nobody’s Fool **** (1994, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 872

Writer-director Robert Benton’s small but perfectly formed 1994 film Nobody’s Fool landed Paul Newman with a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination for his sterling turn as Sully Sullivan, an ageing small-town construction worker who has a […]

Mar, 06

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