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The Amateur * (1981, John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller) – Classic Movie Review 12,569

Charles Jarrott’s Canadian 1982 film The Amateur. The 1982 film The Amateur stars John Savage, Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller. The classy cast works hard but is largely at a loss in this muddled spy […]

Jul, 08

Assassination ** (1987, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 8168

Director Peter Hunt’s 1987 Assassination [The President’s Wife] is a watchable but carelessly conceived and made and unoriginal political thriller and chase movie. Charles Bronson stars as a White House secret service presidential bodyguard Jay […]

Feb, 24

Toy Soldiers *** (1991, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R Lee Ermey, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6735

Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]

Feb, 25

London Has Fallen ** (2016, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett) – Movie Review

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart are back from Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as American Secret Service man Mike Banning and the US President he’s protecting in this surprise sequel to the surprise hit. Banning’s thinking of […]

Mar, 04

Broken Arrow *** (1996, John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis) Classic Movie Review 1722

Director John Woo’s wild and wayward 1996 action thriller provides John Travolta with an extravagant role that he clearly relishes as cool aviator Major Vic Deakins. He hijacks his own plane with a couple of […]

Sep, 30

The Peacemaker ***½ (1997, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Randall Batinkoff, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 998

Director Mimi Leder’s 1997 movie is an exciting, intelligent, well-crafted, thinking person’s action thriller. George Clooney and Nicole Kidman star as an American army colonel, Special Operations Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe, and a civilian […]

Mar, 26

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