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The Saint * (1997, Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Alun Armstrong) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 3229

‘Never reveal your name. Never turn your back. Never surrender your heart.’ Val Kilmer is totally miscast as Simon Templar in director Phillip Noyce‘s misbegotten 1997 cinema attempt to revive The Saint. It co-stars Elisabeth […]

Jan, 04

Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2725

Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama stars Nicolas Cage, who won a Best Actor Oscar as Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic screenwriter who is fired by his Hollywood studio for his drinking, and heads for Las Vegas […]

Jul, 21

Cocktail ** (1988, Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue) – Classic Movie Review 2057

Director Roger Donaldson’s hollow, vacant and fakely concocted 1988 American romantic drama Cocktail is not a good movie. But it is a glossy, good-looking, entertaining one, acceptable, even enjoyable, as a guilty pleasure. It won two […]

Jan, 08

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

Back to the Future Part II **** (1989, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1934

Director Robert Zemeckis and the original cast return in 1989 for a neat sequel to the 1985 blockbuster. This time Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) and Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) jump into their DeLorean […]

Dec, 08

Back to the Future Part III **** (1990, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1935

For the final Back to the Future film of the trilogy in 1990, screenwriter Bob Gale comes up with the appealing idea to send Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) back to 1885. Marty has to […]

Dec, 08

Deconstructing Harry ** (1997, Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 1801

Writer-director Woody Allen’s misfiring 1997 comedy explores the trouble with Harry Block, a nerdy, neurotic New York writer, with more than his fair share of troubles in his creative and erotic life. He has three ex-wives […]

Nov, 03

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