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The Congress *** (2013, Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston) – Movie Review

Robin Wright bravely plays a version of herself, an aging, 44-year-old out-of-work actress who has made bad career, partner and life choices. But her agent Al (Harvey Keitel) talks her into reluctantly accepting one last job, becoming […]

Aug, 14

Bounce (2000, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Classic Film Review 1091

Writer-director Don Roos’s likeable 2000 romantic drama stars Ben Affleck as Buddy, a businessman waiting for his delayed aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. At the last minute he switches plane tickets with fellow passenger Greg […]

Apr, 14

Sleepless in Seattle ***** (1993, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger) – Classic Movie Review 811

Ah, you must remember this… C0-writer/director Nora Ephron’s 1993 delightfully funny and deliciously warm-hearted romantic comedy mixes laughs and love in the most winning of ways. Like the radio DJ in the movie, it’s incredibly […]

Feb, 07

Airplane! ***** (1980, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 669

Written and directed by the Zucker Brothers David and Jerry and Jim Abrahams, this 1980 send-up of the Airport movies, group-jeopardy disaster films in general and Arthur Hailey’s 1956 TV movie Flight into Danger (remade as […]

Jan, 11

The Terminal *** (2004, Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride) – Classic Movie Review 483

Director Steven Spielberg’s 2004 airport drama is fascinating and of course impeccably made. It’s warm hearted and amusing but it’s also rather lethargic, artificial and slightly lacking enough spontaneous charm. Real life is re-invented as a […]

Dec, 07

The Killing ***** (1956, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C Flippen, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook Jr, Timothy Carey) – Classic Movie Review 359

Stanley Kubrick’s exhilarating youthful 1956 masterpiece – his third feature made when he was 28 – is a taut, fast-paced, atmospheric B-movie noir thriller. It gets top mileage from its carefully delineated characters of hoods […]

Nov, 03

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