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Annie *** (1999, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton) – Classic Movie Review 1885

This surprise 1999 remake of the 1982 movie by Rob Marshall, the director of Chicago, is very entertaining. Disney’s remake follows the successful 1998 Broadway revival of the show. It is well regarded as a more […]

Nov, 25

Simon Birch **** (1998, Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd) – Classic Movie Review 1794

  Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson’s 1998 family drama is a truly heartwarming, lovely and adorable experience. It is set in late-1950s America, and focuses on a tiny boy named Simon Birch (played by Ian Michael Smith), […]

Nov, 01

The Best Man Holiday *** (2013, Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun)

Fifteen years after The Best Man, the cast and characters return for this belated sequel, which is a comedy, a soap opera and a tear-jerker as well. The excuse writer-director Malcolm D Lee comes up […]

May, 07

A Liar’s Autobiography *** 15 (2012, Graham Chapman, John Cleese) – Movie Review

‘ ‘The dead one from Monty Python’ provides his own soundtrack for this 3D animated biopic of his bizarre life, based on his book A Liar’s Autobiography, which Graham Chapman thoughtfully recorded himself reading, shortly […]

May, 06

The Lion in Winter ***** (1968, Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Jane Merrow, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry) – Classic Film Review 1000

Director Anthony Harvey’s superb, stirring, sterling triple-Oscar-winning 1968 classic costume period drama is the cat-fighting story of duelling divas at Christmas at the English court. It won Oscars for Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and […]

Mar, 26

Turbulence *** (1997, Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Cross, Rachel Tricotin) – Classic Movie Review 975

Director Robert Butler’s 1997 airplane disaster movie is a most enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek action thriller, skilfully written by Jonathan Brett so that it is actually deliberately in the so-bad-it’s-good category. Now that is witty and clever! […]

Mar, 24

While You Were Sleeping **** (1995, Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 880

Director Jon Turteltaub’s 1996 romance stars Sandra Bullock as a pert, feisty train-ticket collector who rescues hunky commuter Peter Gallagher from being crushed by a train in the subway, then pretends she’s his fiancée and […]

Mar, 07

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