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Fat City **** (1972, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell) – Classic Movie Review 4145

Director John Huston’s honest and touching 1972 story of loneliness and failure is written by Leonard Gardner and based on his 1970 novel. It provides ideal roles for Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, in their excellent […]

Aug, 08

The Black Stallion **** (1979, Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton) – Classic Movie Review 4069

Executive producer Francis Coppola supervises director Carroll Ballard’s sumptuous 1979 film version of Walter Farley’s 1941 children’s classic novel about a boy’s adventures with the spirited Arab horse he saves from a shipwreck and takes […]

Jul, 23

The Karate Kid **** (1984, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove) – Classic Movie Review 3842

Ralph Macchio stars as The Karate Kid, wide-eyed New Jersey Italian teenager Daniel LaRusso who becomes more macho when his elderly apartment block janitor/ gardener Kesuke Miyagi (Oscar-nominated Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita) teaches him karate to give the California […]

Jun, 11

Rocky ***** (1976, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers) – Classic Movie Review 2,389

Director John G Avildsen’s 1976 prize-winning champion boxing movie Rocky is a great old-style, feel-good film, directed with a lot of punch by the Oscar-winning film-maker. A triple Oscar-winner, it was the highest-grossing movie of 1976. Best […]

Apr, 15

The Mask of Zorro **** (1998, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2316

Director Martin Campbell’s 1998  American swashbuckler movie The Mask of Zorro is a brilliant, old-style adventure entertainment that proves they could still make them like they used to. It is based on the character of […]

Mar, 25

Men of Honor **** (2000, Cuba Gooding Jr, Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron) – Classic Movie Review 2303

Director George Tillman Jr’s 2000 drama stars Cuba Gooding Jr as the real-life hero Carl Brashear, who comes up against tough, embittered US Navy Dive School instructor Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) and a load […]

Mar, 22

Mulan **** (1998, voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B D Wong, Donny Osmond, Harvey Fierstein, June Foray, Marni Nixon, Pat Morita, James Hong, George Takei, Soon-Tek Oh) – Classic Movie Review 2219

Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook’s likeable, intriguing and attractively different 1998 Walt Disney animated feature retells an old Chinese folk tale about the story of Mulan (voice of Ming-Na Wen), a young Chinese maiden who learns that […]

Feb, 27

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