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This Boy’s Life **** (1993, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 1,434
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s riveting and disturbing 1993 American biographical coming-of-age movie This Boy’s Life stars the amazing actor that was the young Leonardo DiCaprio. He is extraordinarily compelling, quite mesmerising, as Tobias ‘Toby’ Wolff, an early […]
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 […]
Drop Dead Gorgeous ***½ (1999, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams, Matt Malloy, Nora Dunn, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 1316
Director Michael Patrick Jann’s 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious, bad-taste fake documentary (‘mockumentary’) about a Minnesota small town teen-pageant beauty contest, in which poor girl Kirsten Dunst fights it out with rich […]
Mr Deeds ** (2002, Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro) – Classic Film Review 1226
Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]
Mr Deeds Goes to Town ***** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, Walter Catlett, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1,225
Frank Capra won his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Gary Cooper shines brilliantly as the great American everyman Longfellow Deeds. Director Frank […]
Swann (1996, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Film Review 1200
Director Anna Benson Gyles‘s 1996 literary heart-warmer with intelligence and soul provides a lovely acting showcase for talented Miranda Richardson and Brenda Fricker. Richardson plays a hit author Sarah Maloney, who is asked to write the […]
The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1,137
Burt Lancaster makes an electrifying impact in his film début as the former boxer Ole ‘Swede’ Andreson, whose murder by two professional killers is probed in a series of flashbacks by an insurance investigator, in […]