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No Way Home *** (1996, Tim Roth, Deborah Kara Unger, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 3603

Tim Roth, then in 1996 carving out an American career of note, impresses as an ex-con who return to live with his lowlife older brother (James Russo) and wife (Deborah Kara Unger). Roth and Unger […]

Apr, 23

We’re No Angels **** (1989, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, James Russo, Ray McAnally, Demi Moore) – Classic Movie Review 3361

Talented Irish director Neil Jordan’s 1989 feature is his first American movie, a remake of director Michael Curtiz’s 1954 movie with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. Robert De Niro and Sean Penn play small-time hoods in […]

Feb, 15

A Kiss Before Dying ** (1991, Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Diane Ladd, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 1,669

Matt Dillon won praise for the watchable 1991 romantic suspense thriller film A Kiss Before Dying, but poor Sean Young won Golden Raspberry Awards for both Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress!  Sean Young stars […]

Sep, 13

Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691

With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]

Jan, 17

My Own Private Idaho **** (1991, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo) – Classic Movie Review 397

Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult favourite follow-up to the 1989 hit Drugstore Cowboy is a bravely, inspiringly poetic study of a friendship between two young male hustlers, both with parent issues. Two teen heart-throbs of the […]

Nov, 12

Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217

This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]

Sep, 03

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