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8MM [Eight Millimeter] *** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 3091

Director Joel Schumacher’s 1999 thriller stars Nicolas Cage as Tom Welles, a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Welles is called in by a rich old lady and her lawyer Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald) […]

Nov, 25

Irrational Man *** (2015, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley) – Movie Review

  Woody Allen without the laughs, anybody? Joaquin Phoenix stars as Abe, a depressive, super-brainy, middle-aged philosophy professor who ironically finds the fresh will to live and a new zest for life when he commits murder. It’s […]

Sep, 09

U Turn ** (1997, Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 2083

Director Oliver Stone goes for overkill again with another gorefest in this 1997 pounding mix of his 1994 Natural Born Killers and film noir that gives your senses a hammering. Sean Penn stars as a […]

Jan, 17

Inherent Vice ** (2014, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon) – Movie Review

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon’s novel with due conviction and gusto, turning it into a bizarre ‘groovy’ kidnapping romp peopled by unfathomably oddball characters. Oh well, it’s LA in the 70s, no need to fathom […]

Jan, 06

Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432

Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]

Jul, 16

The Yards **** (2000, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan) – Classic Movie Review 1429

Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]

Jul, 14

Buffalo Soldiers **** (2001, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1073

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2001 movie, based on the book by Robert O’Connor, is his biggest success so far. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a soldier who wheels and deals on the black market at a 1989 […]

Apr, 09

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