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Steve Jobs **** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Danny Boyle‘s 2015 movie casts Michael Fassbender as the architect of the digital revolution, Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple inc. Let’s be clear, this isn’t a biopic of Jobs. Instead it paints a […]

Nov, 11

Big Trouble in Little China **** (1986, Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun) – Classic Movie Review 2553

Director John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell in one of his iconic roles as Jack Burton, a trucker who gets sucked into a ‘centuries-old mystical battle’ in San Francisco’s […]

Jun, 03

Poltergeist III ** (1988, Heather O’Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 2501

Co-writer/director Gary Sherman’s 1988 third episode brings back only Heather O’Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein from the original two movies. JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson having bailed out of part 3, their haunted screen daughter […]

May, 19

Salvador ***** (1986, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 2076

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s brilliantly fired-up, exhilarating 1986 political thriller is a report from troubled Central America and is based on the real-life adventures of American photo-journalist Richard Boyle (played by a sizzling James Woods) who […]

Jan, 13

Wall Street ***** (1987, Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 2068

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1987 financial drama summons up the get-rich-quick 80s era better than most other movies and added a couple of indelible phrases into the language: ‘greed is good’ and ‘lunch is for wimps’. Though the […]

Jan, 10

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd * (2003, Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Eugene Levy) – Classic Movie Review 1964

Two incredibly silly high-school boys called Harry and Lloyd get unwittingly mixed up in the scam when their mean School Principal conspires with the dinner lady to perpetrate a fraud. Derek Richardson (as Harry Dunne) […]

Dec, 16

Get On Up *** (2014, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd) – Movie Revie

After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]

Nov, 18

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