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Mobsters *** (1991, Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, Anthony Quinn, Michael Gambon, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 11,289

Director Michael Karbelnikoff’a 1991 thriller Mobsters [Mobsters: The Evil Empire] is a junior-league Godfather, a kind of Young Machine Guns, with Christian Slater as 30s gangster Lucky Luciano out to get rid of (or ‘ice’) […]

Jun, 09

Assassins ** (1995, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8166

Director Richard Donner’s 1995 action thriller Assassins stars Sylvester Stallone, who offers a monolithic, by-the-numbers performance as a jaded contract killer hitman called Robert Rath who plans to retire after one last job. But soon […]

Feb, 23

Lullaby of Broadway *** (1951, Doris Day, Gene Nelson, Billy De Wolfe, S Z Sakall, Florence Bates, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 7683

Director David Butler’s 1951 Technicolor musical Lullaby of Broadway is one of the films that established Doris Day as the top US female star in 1952. It is a modest achievement – a formulaic, though […]

Oct, 20

L A Story *** (1991, Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E Grant ) – Classic Movie Review 6898

Director Mick Jackson’s funny and charming 1991 movie finds Steve Martin in romantic comedy mood with a sweet love poem to Los Angeles and his then British wife Victoria Tennant. He must have got it […]

Apr, 08

Carpool ** (1996, Tom Arnold, Rod Steiger, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman, Kim Coates) – Classic Movie Review 5097

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1996 comedy stars Tom Arnold as a bumbling bank robber who takes a mini-van full of schoolkids hostage, driving them through downtown Seattle. Rod Steiger, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman, Kim Coates, Rachel […]

Mar, 04

Mirror [Zerkalo] ***** (1975, Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev) – Classic Movie Review 3568

Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterly 1975 kaleidoscope of personal imagery has a strong, poetic and characteristic use of the elements and images – the wind constantly moving the tall grasses, the burning barn, the flooded room, […]

Apr, 14

Dr Giggles **½ (1992, Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 3482

Co-writer/director Manny Coto’s deeply unsettling 1992 horror movie stars Larry Drake as the psychopathic Dr Evan Rendell, aka Dr Giggles, the son of a mass-murdering doctor, who escapes from his mental institution and comes to the […]

Mar, 20

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