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Prefontaine *** (1997, Jared Leto, R Lee Ermey, Ed O’Neill, Amy Locane) – Classic Movie Review 2097

Co-writer/director Steve James’s 1997 sports drama stars the young Jared Leto as the amazingly promising but doomed American athlete Steve Prefontaine in the first out of two simultaneously made biopic films. Prefontaine ran fast and […]

Jan, 22

Alexander ** (2004, Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer) – Bad Movie 3

Fortune normally favours the bold, maybe, but not here. Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 2004 classical adventure epic is certainly brave and ambitious but it is also turgid and laughable. An absurdly miscast Colin Farrell is too […]

Mar, 23

Urban Legend *** (1998, Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Robert Englund, Brad Dourif, Rebecca Gayheart, Loretta Devine, Joshua Jackson, John Neville, Tara Reid) – Classic Movie Review 629

A film star with rodent problems; mutant alligators living in New York’s sewers; the babysitter getting calls from a killer in the upstairs bedroom; an old lady who dries her cat in the microwave; human […]

Jan, 05

Panic Room **** (2002, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yokam) – Classic Movie Review 591

Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart (just 12) star in 2002 as Meg and Sarah Altman, a young divorcée and her diabetic daughter who buy a gorgeous, huge, fancy New York apartment, a brownstone mansion that boasts a […]

Dec, 29

American Psycho **** (2000, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis) – Classic Film Review 261

Christian Bale gives an astonishing performance as 27-year-old Eighties New York yuppie Patrick Bateman, a handsome, well educated, brilliantly groomed and superbly gym-fit, muscled-up Wall Street broker. He earns a fortune in his job by […]

Sep, 30

Requiem for a Dream ***** (2000, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 67

For his 2000 follow-up to his hugely promising debut Pi (1998), director Darren Aronofsky comes up with an astonishing, uniquely haunting movie. It takes us to a dark and dangerous place. The author of the […]

Jul, 19

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