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Bridge of Spies **** (2015, Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda) – Movie Review

Tom Hanks’s sterling performance as Cold War-era American lawyer James B Donovan, who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court so American justice can be seen to be being done, is in many […]

Nov, 27

The Longest Ride*** (2015, Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin) – Movie Review

  ‘Love requires sacrifice, always.’ – Ira Levinson. Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, this plush romantic drama for twentysomething women is escapist fluff but has its charms. Certainly it is lovingly crafted by […]

Jun, 16

Murder at 1600 * (1997, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Alan Alda, Tate Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 2300

Director Dwight H Little’s 1997 movie is a very, very bad and totally cheesy thriller, wasting Wesley Snipes as Detective Harlan Regis, a homicide cop who must investigate the murder of a woman in a […]

Mar, 22

Everyone Says I Love You **** (1996, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1800

In writer-director Woody Allen’s 1996 comedy, Everyone Says ‘I Loved Making This Movie’ but No One Says’ I Can Sing’. Joe (Allen) fancies pretty woman Von (Julia Roberts) in Venice in this quite delicious musical […]

Nov, 03

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

Mad City *** (1997, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Bill Nunn, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 1559

In director Costa-Gavras’s 1997 thriller, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a disgruntled natural history museum security guard, who holds visitors, including a school trip group, hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he […]

Aug, 17

What Women Want (2000, Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt) Classic Film Review 1140

Director Nancy Myers’s 2000 romcom stars Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, a womanising Chicago advertising executive who gains the ability to hear the thoughts of the fairer sex after a freak accident, when a woman, Darcy […]

Apr, 23

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