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Days of Thunder *** (1990, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, John C Reilly, J C Quinn, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 3334

Director Tony Scott’s 1990 old-style fast-car adventure movie is celebrated, if at all, as the first pairing of the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who then became real-life husband and wife. It reunites Cruise and […]

Feb, 06

Glory **** (1989, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Jihmi Kennedy, Donovan Leitch Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3192

Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]

Dec, 29

Oxford Blues * (1984, Rob Lowe, Julian Sands, Michael Gough, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Gail Strickland, Alan Howard, Julian Firth, Cary Elwes) – So Bad It’s Good 14

Blues is right. The 1984 So Bad It’s Good movie Oxford Blues is likely to give you them. The young Rob Lowe is an unlikely Oxford student, but he is effectively slimy in a tweak […]

Aug, 11

The Cat’s Meow ***½ (2011, Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 2643

The Cat’s Meow is the semi-true story of a real Hollywood murder that took place on the yacht of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), whose mistress film star Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst) is […]

Jun, 27

Robin Hood: Men in Tights *** (1993, Cary Elwes, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Patrick Stewart, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2636

‘The legend had it coming… Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John, what made Will Scarlet, and what did Friar Tuck into his tights that Maid Marion all of a quiver?’ Co-writer/producer/director Mel […]

Jun, 24

Jungle Book **** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 2403

Director Stephen Sommers’s 1994 family adventure sees the Walt Disney Studio remaking its own beloved 1967 cartoon in a sleek, superbly realised live-action movie. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic, it is well pitched between a […]

Apr, 18

The Princess Bride **** (1987, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1537

Director Rob Reiner’s 1987 fairy tale movie is a perennial pleasure. The story is narrated by Peter Falk’s kindly grandfather, who reads his sick grandson (Fred Savage) a classic fairy tale, with heroes and villains, a poor stable boy, a […]

Aug, 11

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