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F.I.S.T. *** (1978, Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco, Kevin Conway) – Classic Movie Review 10,645

Director Norman Jewison’s 1978 film F.I.S.T. is based on a story by Joe Eszterhas, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco and Kevin Conway. With the help […]

Dec, 10

Oscar *** (1991, Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Kirk Douglas, Vincent Spano, Marisa Tomei, Tim Curry, Don Ameche, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray) – Classic Movie Review 10,620

Director John Landis’s likeable 1991 screwball crime comedy Oscar stars Sylvester Stallone as Angelo ‘Snaps’ Provolone, an Italian mobster who is asked by his young accountant (Vincent Spano) for his daughter’s hand in this frantic […]

Dec, 02

The Bay Boy *** (1984, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat) – Classic Movie Review 10,287

Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]

Sep, 10

Billy Bathgate ** (1991, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 10,158

If taste and talent were all, director Robert Benton’s 1991 film of novelist E L Doctorow’s fantasised biopic of young Billy (Loren Dean), who is taken up by the real-life Thirties New York City gangster […]

Aug, 10

Inserts ** (1975, Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins, Stephen Davies) – Classic Movie Review 10,045

John Byrum’s 1975 daring comedy drama Inserts is ‘an erotic adventure in sex and cinema’ and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins and Stephen Davies. It was a critical and commercial failure, […]

Jul, 16

The Midnight Patrol *** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Bob Kortman, Charlie Hall, Walter Plinge) – Classic Movie Review 10,037

Director Lloyd French’s 1933 20-minute comedy short The Midnight Patrol stars Stan Laurel and Hardy as radio patrol car cops. Now what police force in the world would take on Stan and Ollie? The stars […]

Jul, 14

Dancing at Lughnasa ***½ (1998, Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan, Rhys Ifans) – Classic Movie Review 9823

Director Pat O’Connor’s 1998 romantic comedy drama Dancing at Lughnasa tells the ripe tale of prim schoolmarm Kate Mundy (Meryl Streep) and her four unmarried sisters (Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan) in […]

May, 26

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