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At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

Kill Me Again **** (1989, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 1615

Co-writer-director John Dahl’s sizzling, quirky and twisty 1989 retro-film noir thriller stars the young Val Kilmer at his most ingratiating as a dubious, cash-strapped, third-rate Reno private eye called Jack Andrews. Kilmer is ideally cast opposite […]

Aug, 31

Willow **** (1988, Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 1614

Director Ron Howard’s lusty 1988 fantasy spectacular Willow is lovingly made, full of Industrial Light and Magic special effects and a deliciously rousing experience to watch. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Visual Effects and […]

Aug, 31

Top Gun **** (1986, Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 1517

Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun shot the 24-year-old Tom Cruise into the Hollywood stratosphere. Director Tony Scott’s irresistible, ultra-canny 1986 blockbuster Top Gun shot Tom Cruise into the Hollywood stratosphere as Lieutenant Pete […]

Aug, 04

The Island of Dr Moreau (1996, Kilmer, Brando) – Bad Movie 1

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1996 movie is one of his worst films, an appalling, totally inept remake of the classic novel by H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau, filmed in 1933 as The Island […]

Mar, 12

True Romance ***** (1993, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn) – Classic Movie Review 756

Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]

Jan, 26

Red Planet **** (2000, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 707

The special effects are out of this world in director Anthony Hoffman’s gripping Aussie-made 2001 sci-fi thriller, which provides an entertaining visual treat with its splendidly realised vision of Mars in the future. Mission commander […]

Jan, 17

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