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Tough Guys *** (1986, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach, Dana Carvey) – Classic Movie Review 10,756

Septuagenarian buddies Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas unite for the seventh (and last) time for director Jeff Kanew’s 1986 film Tough Guys, an amiable, entertaining caper about elderly train robbers Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie […]

Jan, 06

Three Fugitives *** (1989, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff) – Classic Movie Review 10,042

The swift moving odd-couple (well odd-triple) 1989 slapstick comedy Three Fugitives is slickly directed by Francis Veber, who also writes the screenplay and bases it on his 1986 French farce film Les Fugitifs (with Gérard […]

Jul, 15

Les Valseuses [Going Places] **** (1974, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey) – Classic Movie Review 9598

Director Bertrand Blier’s 1974 Les Valseuses [Going Places], with its tale of two young juvenile delinquents, Jean-Claude and Pierrot (Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere), who abduct hairdresser Marie-Ange (Miou-Miou) and take to the road in an […]

Apr, 05

Blues Brothers 2000 * (1998, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peoples, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz) – Classic Movie Review 8240

Director John Landis’s 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 is a truly awful, misbegotten, forlorn sequel to the 1980 hit The Blues Brothers, in which Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is freed from jail and reassembles the old […]

Mar, 13

Steelyard Blues **** (1973, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 7561

After their 1971 big hit Klute, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were right to team up again for director Alan Myerson’s 1973 Steelyard Blues. It is a much less compelling but still quite endearing oddity about […]

Sep, 12

Ocean’s Eight ** (2018, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham Carter, Awkwafina) – Movie Review

Sandra Bullock stars as heist mastermind Danny Ocean’s sister Debbie Ocean, who gets out of jail after five years and assembles an all-female team to rob the New York City’s yearly Met Gala of a priceless Cartier […]

Jun, 14

The Constant Husband [Marriage a la Mode] *** (1955, Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey, George Cole, Raymond Huntley, Jill Adams, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 4512

That sterling high-comedy actor Rex Harrison was lured back from Hollywood to British movies again with co-producer/ co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s daft piece of fluff 1955 comedy film, with a delightful cast of players, most […]

Oct, 23

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