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The Hi-Lo Country *** (1998, Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3397

Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]

Feb, 21

Triple 9 ***½ (2016, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Kate Winslet, Teresa Palmer, Gal Gadot) – Movie Review

Director John Hillcoat’s brutal epic cop thriller Triple 9 is tense, gritty and exciting, the realistic antidote to Ocean’s 11 heist capers. A Russian mob gang of criminals blackmails a crew of corrupt cops to pull […]

Feb, 18

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review

The Hunger Games races to its conclusion in the fast-paced, exciting climax, crisply made and sharply edited by director Francis Lawrence from its original two hours and 51 minutes two hours and 17 minutes. Peter Craig […]

Nov, 19

Welcome to Sarajevo *** (1997, Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3042

The story of ITN newsman Michael Nicholson is re-told in director Michael Winterbottom’s complex, hard-hitting 1997 movie take on the conflict in Bosnia. Stephen Dillane exudes earnest propriety as the British TV journalist (slightly fictionalised […]

Nov, 07

Natural Born Killers ** (1994, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2080

Director Oliver Stone’s hugely controversial 1994 serial killer thriller and media satire started life originally as a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. But here it is substantially reinvented and given a changed ending by writer-director Stone, […]

Jan, 17

Palmetto ** (1998, Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny) – Classic Movie Review 2017

Director Volker Schlöndorff‘s 1998 thriller is an interesting failure as a fatally flawed version of James Hadley Chase’s novel Just Another Sucker, adapted here by screenwriter E Max Frye. Woody Harrelson stars as Harry Barber, […]

Dec, 30

Indecent Proposal *** (1993, Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton) – Classic Movie Review 1,905

Robert Redford makes Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson an offer they can’t refuse in Adrian Lyne’s mesmerisingly compulsive 1993 erotic thriller film Indecent Proposal. Director Adrian Lyne’s mesmerisingly compulsive 1993 erotic thriller film Indecent Proposal pitches […]

Nov, 30

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