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The Contender **** (2000, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William L Petersen, Philip Baker Hall, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 3168

‘Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.’ Joan Allen stars as Senator Laine Hanson, who is a hot contender for the job of US Vice President. But then both true information and false […]

Dec, 18

Psycho * (1998, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, William H Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2301

Director Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic is a pointless lost cause. Van Sant won the 1999 Razzie award for Worst Director and the film won the Razzie for Worst […]

Mar, 22

Kiss of Death ** (1995, David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 2067

David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]

Jan, 10

Dogville **** (2003, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1496

Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]

Jul, 30

Magnolia ***** (1999, Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 319

In 2000 Tom Cruise won the Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actor and his third Oscar nomination, playing one of the dozen main characters of this brilliant, quite extraordinary multi-drama of intertwined lives unfolding one cataclysmic day in the San […]

Oct, 23

Hard Eight **** (1996, Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 316

Suspense, wit, atmosphere, sudden death and fine character study are the name of the game in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s superb, stylish, hard-nosed 1996 thriller Hard Eight. Anderson’s feature debut is graced with the performance […]

Oct, 23

Boogie Nights ***** (1997, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 272

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 breakthrough movie is a very adult, brilliantly staged epic look at the LA porn scene of the late 70s and early 80s. Epic in scale as well as running time (155 […]

Oct, 06

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