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Dances with Wolves ***** (1990, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene) – Classic Movie Review 2056

Co-producer-director-star Kevin Costner comes up with a truly majestic epic Western in 1990 and wins seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Grown men have been known to weep at this […]

Jan, 08

Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954

Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]

Dec, 14

A Life Less Ordinary ** (1997, Cameron Diaz, Ewan McGregor, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 1876

Director Danny Boyle’s 1997 movie is an honourable flop this time round from the Trainspotting (1996) production team, commendably trying something bold and adventurous a million miles away from their previous hit, with a modern […]

Nov, 23

Mystery, Alaska *** (1999, Rusell Crowe, Burt Reynolds, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 1656

  Director Jay Roach’s good-natured 1999 comedy focuses, surprisingly enough, on the little-known remote small US town of Mystery, Alaska, which is obsessed with hockey. And it goes haywire when its amateur team agrees to take […]

Sep, 08

MouseHunt **** (1997, Lee Evans, Nathan Lane, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1649

  Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 farcical comedy is a total hoot, with a highly amusing and inventive screenplay by Alan Rifkin. Lee Evans and Nathan Lane are well cast as daft brothers […]

Sep, 07

The Art of War *** (2000, Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin) – Classic Movie Review 1076

Director Christian Duguay’s slick and impressively preposterous 2000 thriller stars Wesley Snipes as Neil Shaw, an undercover agent for the United Nations dirty tricks squad. Shaw is set up as the patsy after the Chinese […]

Apr, 12

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