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Runaway Jury **** (2003, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 902

Director Gary Fleder’s 2003 thriller stars Gene Hackman as the splendidly slimy jury fixer Rankin Fitch, whose motto is ‘Trials are too important to be left up to juries’. Anyone who’s ever done jury service […]

Mar, 12

Enemy at the Gates **** (2001, Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Film Review 841

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s compelling 2001 film tells the persistently small-scale, intimate wartime story of a Russian sniper Vassili (Jude Law) and a German marksman major Konig (Ed Harris) playing a lethal game of cat and […]

Feb, 18

Chain Reaction ** (1996, Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn, Joanna Cassidy, Brian Cox, Chelcie Ross) – Classic Movie Review 753

Keanu Reeves goes into action as physicist Eddie Kasalivich, when his water energy experiments set off a vast blast and a chain reaction of betrayals, in the 1996 conspiracy thriller film Chain Reaction. Keanu’s eager-beaver […]

Jan, 26

Oz the Great and Powerful **** (2013, James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis) – Movie Review

An astounding looking movie from its 1930s-style movie titles and black and white, narrow-screen start to its glorious widescreen, colour images in the land of Oz , this is an utterly ravishing and beguiling extravaganza. […]

Oct, 30

Constantine **** (2005, Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Peter Stormare, Djimon Hounsou) – Classic Movie Review 255

Keanu Reeves stars as John Constantine, a chain-smoking demon hunter who can commune with angels and demons on Earth, in the smart, imaginative 2005 fantasy sci-fi horror thriller Constantine. ‘Hell wants him. Heaven won’t take […]

Sep, 21

The Bourne Legacy *** (2012, Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton) – Movie Review

Jeremy Renner inherits the mantle of Matt Damon, although not his character, as the grimly resourceful hero-on-the-run for the 2012 fourth episode in the still-hot Bourne franchise. Building on the success of his breakthrough performances […]

Sep, 21

The Mummy ***** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr) – Classic Movie Review 100

Finally, thanks to the late-Nineties new CGI effects, the cinema found a way of making The Mummy both thrilling and exciting as well as fast and scary, and not just an old geezer wrapped in […]

Jul, 28

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