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Posts Tagged "Casey Affleck"

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Soul Survivors ** (2001, Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 5703

Melissa Sagemiller plays a college young woman called Cassie who is traumatised by a horrific car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck). Cassie is befriended by a mysterious young priest named Father Jude (Luke […]

Jul, 03

Triple 9 ***½ (2016, Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Kate Winslet, Teresa Palmer, Gal Gadot) – Movie Review

Director John Hillcoat’s brutal epic cop thriller Triple 9 is tense, gritty and exciting, the realistic antidote to Ocean’s 11 heist capers. A Russian mob gang of criminals blackmails a crew of corrupt cops to pull […]

Feb, 18

The Finest Hours **½ (2016, Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Holliday Grainger, Eric Bana, Ben Foster) – Movie Review

In a lavish, painstaking production, Walt Disney Pictures remember and celebrate the heroic story of a daring, against-all-odds rescue attempt by the US Coast Guard after two oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in February 1952 off the coast of Cape […]

Feb, 05

Gone Baby Gone **** (2007, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 3285

The year 2007 was a great one for Casey Affleck. Hot on the heels of his Oscar-nominated performance in The Assassination of Jesse James comes his equally riveting turn as a rookie private detective hired […]

Jan, 20

Ocean’s Thirteen **** (2007, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Bernie Mac, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 3246

It’s lucky 13 when George Clooney returns again as Danny Ocean and rounds up his boys Brad Pitt’s Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon’s Linus Caldwell and co for a third heist, after Al Pacino’s casino owner Willy […]

Jan, 07

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****½ (2007, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2400

Casey Affleck gives a superbly snivelling performance as the 20-year-old rat-like coward Robert Ford, who has idolised the Missouri outlaw gang leader Jesse James since childhood. Director Andrew Dominik‘s 2007 movie takes its place as one […]

Apr, 17

Chasing Amy **** (1997, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee) – Classic Movie Review 1740

This delicious, offbeat 1997 sex comedy from writer-director Kevin Smith, director of Clerks (1994) and Mallrats (1995), is a hilarious and truthful heartbreaker that confirms the strength and vitality of the American independent movie of […]

Oct, 04

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