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Jade ** (1995, David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri) – Classic Movie Review 2038
Director William Friedkin’s trashy 1995 thriller stars David Caruso, whose bright, intense TV talent is over-exposed here on the big screen, playing David Corelli, a bright assistant district attorney investigating a nasty hatchet killing among San […]
Marlowe **** (1969, James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1880
The slick and complex 1969 neo-noir thriller film Marlowe stars James Garner as Raymond Chandler’s all-time great LA private eye Philip Marlowe. It also stars Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell […]
Sex Tape ** (2014, Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Lowe) – Movie Review
‘Who has sex for three hours? That’s the length of the movie Lincoln. You did the full Lincoln.’ Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel are well paired as married couple Annie and Jay, whose initially frantic love […]
An Ideal Husband **** (1999, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, John Wood, Minnie Driver, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1160
Oscar Wilde’s witty satirical comedy play about a 1895 titled Englishman who rescues the career of a London diplomat threatened by a blackmailing old lover makes for a second very enjoyable and pretty special film […]
High Heels and Low Lifes *** (2001, Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Danny Dyer, Kevin McNally, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 877
Minnie Driver (playing Shannon) and Mary McCormack (as Frances) try hard as a feisty duo who uncover a bank vault robbery and then plot to blackmail the crooks. If they stumble, it’s because of the clunky […]
The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742
Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]
Apt Pupil **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 717
The 16-year-old Brad Renfro stars as teenager Todd Bowden, who suspects his neighbour Arthur Denker (played by Ian McKellen) of being a Nazi war criminal called Kurt Dussander. The lad starts a blackmail campaign against […]