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Airport **** (1970, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3432

Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]

Mar, 01

Home Alone 3 ** (1997, Alex D Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen) – Classic Movie Review 2859

The whole of the original Home Alone team is absent for director Raja Gosnell’s third, unrelated 1997 episode. This time a different lad, eight-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D Linz), is (again improbably) left abandoned at home alone […]

Aug, 29

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York *** (1992, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 2858

Director Chris Columbus’s hastily concocted 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York re-assembles the whole hit 1990 Home Alone team for Macaulay Culkin’s re-match with bumbling baddies Joe Pesci (as Harry Lime!) and […]

Aug, 29

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

The Order *** (2001, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sofia Milos, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2126

Director Sheldon Lettich’s 2001 action thriller stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Rudy Cafmeyer, who travels to the Holy Land, determined to track down his missing archaeologist father Oscar (Vernon Dobtcheff). Based on a screenplay co-written […]

Jan, 29

Dumb and Dumber ** (1994, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly) – Classic Movie Review 1963

Or Jim and Jeff’s no brainer. Writer-directors Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly’s 1994 comedy blockbuster stars Jim Carrey and Daniels as two idiots with incredibly bad haircuts who get mixed up in a kidnap plot. […]

Dec, 16

The Out of Towners **** (1970, Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1957

Most Neil Simon movie comedies were written as theatre plays and were then adapted into films, but he wrote this 1970 original The Out of Towners directly for the screen when he realised that it would be […]

Dec, 14

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