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Dancing at the Blue Iguana *** (2000, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Sandra Oh, Elia Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 9824

Director Michael Radford’s 2002 Dancing at the Blue Iguana is a brave and intriguing improvised drama exploring the everyday dilemmas faced by women working at a seedy strip-club, from adoption to pregnancy to seeking stardom. […]

May, 26

Streets of Fire **** (1984, Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis) – Classic Movie Review 9218

Co-writer/ director Walter Hill (48 Hrs) takes a splendidly stylish, exciting and imaginative ride into Eighties pop-video land in his 1984 film Streets of Fire, starring Diane Lane as Ellen Aim, a rock and roll […]

Jan, 03

The Savage Eye *** (1960, Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill, Herschel Bernardi) – Classic Movie Review 9101

Writers/ producers/ directors Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers and Joseph Strick’s odd but engaging 1959 docu-drama The Savage Eye stars Barbara Baxley, who is believable as Judith McGuire, a disillusioned woman trying to see if there […]

Nov, 26

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie ***** (1976, Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 6328

Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1976 epic neo noir crime movie is another of his exciting part-improvised thrillers, propelled with a classic plot about gangster Mort Weil (Seymour Cassel)’s mobsters forcing a nightclub owner Cosmo Vittelli (Ben […]

Nov, 28

High School High * (1997, Jon Lovitz, Tia Carriere, Louise Fletcher, John Neville, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 4995

Director Hart Bochner’s 1997 Zucker Brothers comedy is an impressively awful parody of Michelle Pfeiffer’s 1995 school film Dangerous Minds, with a charmless performance by Jon Lovitz, playing Richard Clark, the posh son of headmaster […]

Feb, 07

Go **** (1999, Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner, Katie Holmes) – Classic Movie Review 4228

Sarah Polley (as Ronna), Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Timothy Olyphant, William Fichtner and Katie Holmes star in director Doug Liman’s clever and exciting 1999 multiple perspectives crime comedy, in which the events that follow some young Californians’ drugs deal are […]

Sep, 20

Expresso Bongo **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard) – Classic Movie Review 3952

Director Val Guest’s 1959 British black and white musical drama Expresso Bongo is a fascinating period piece, and snapshot of a long-ago time and place. It is far more fragrant of its era than the Eighties homage movie […]

Jun, 30

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