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Let Me In **** (2010, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Minnette) – Classic Movie Review 3783

Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]

May, 29

One Night at McCool’s **** (2001, Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 3008

Director Harald Zwart’s smart and clever 2001 comedy stars Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser and John Goodman as a trio of hapless men who all fall for a beautiful temptress called Jewel (Liv Tyler at her […]

Oct, 24

The Impostors *** (1998, Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 1691

Writer-star-director Stanley Tucci’s freewheeling 1998 old-style slapstick comedy is engagingly silly, fast-moving entertainment. Tucci and Oliver Platt do a Laurel and Hardy double act as Arthur and Maurice, out-of-work actors on the run – from just […]

Sep, 20

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

God’s Pocket *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Turturro, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Marsan, Richard Jenkins, Caleb Landry Jones) – Movie Review

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in his penultimate completed feature God’s Pocket (2014) as Philadelphia debt collector Mickey Scarpato, whose crazy, thoroughly dislikeable, racist stepson Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) is killed at work in what his […]

Aug, 08

Sea of Love **** (1989, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 1513

Director Harold Becker’s sizzling 1989 thriller Sea of Love is arguably his finest movie, though City Hall (1996) comes a very near second. Al Pacino is on his best form as love-crazed cop Detective Frank Keller, […]

Aug, 03

Shall We Dance ***½ (2004, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Richard Jenkins, Bobby Cannavale, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 1058

Richard Gere steps lively in director Peter Chelsom’s very entertaining, heart-warming 2004 remake of the 1995 Japanese movie. Married, workaholic lawyer John Clark (Gere) enrols at a dance studio, lured there by lovely Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) looking […]

Apr, 05

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