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Real Men (1987, Jim Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,744

Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]

Jan, 03

‘Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders ** (1943, Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr, J Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 9715

Director Ray Enright’s 1943 war movie Gung Ho! stars Randolph Scott as Colonel Thorwald, who leads a tough patriotic wartime propaganda action adventure about US Marines in the Pacific, based on the experiences of Lieutenant W […]

May, 04

Hot Shots! **** (1991, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kristy Swanson, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 8862

Director Jim Abrahams’s 1991 Hot Shots! is an often hilarious Airplane!-style parody of Top Gun and all the other aviator movies (plus for good measure and for no particular reason Dances with Wolves, Gone with […]

Aug, 24

The Arizona Kid *** (1930, Warner Baxter, Carole Lombard, Theodore von Eltz, Mona Maris) – Classic Movie Review 8284

Director Alfred Santell’s 1930 Western sequel The Arizona Kid stars Warner Baxter, who reprises his Oscar-winning role as the Cisco Kid, O Henry’s Robin Hood of the old West, from In Old Arizona (1929). Ralph […]

Mar, 23

Satan Never Sleeps * (1962, Clifton Webb, William Holden, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8124

Satan Never Sleeps…but you may. Director Leo McCarey bows out on a real low spot in 1962 with this gobsmackingly boring tale about two priests (Clifton Webb as Father Bovard, William Holden as Father O’Banion) […]

Feb, 13

The Green Berets (1968, John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 6998

Inspired to make The Green Berets as a response to the growing anti-Vietnam War movement in the US, John Wayne delivers an offensive and inept warmongering, reactionary propaganda movie about two US army groups trained […]

May, 04

The Mission **** (1986, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6558

Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]

Jan, 14

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