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Nine Queens **** (2000, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice) – Classic Movie Review 1576
Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls star as Marcos and Juan, a couple of conmen who join forces to pull off a swindle involving a sheet of rare counterfeit stamps. They’re trying to con a stamp collector into buying the fakes […]
Shooting Fish *** (1997, Stuart Townsend, Dan Futterman, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1490
Writer-director Stefan Schwartz’s 1997 British comedy stars Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman as Jez and Dylan, a couple of orphaned con-men who join up with their posh office temp Georgie (Kate Beckinsale) to scam enough […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]
Big Fat Liar *** (2002, Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes) – Classic Movie Review 1275
Frankie Muniz, so good in TV’s Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006), is enjoyable here in director Shawn Levy’s amiable 2002 American teen comedy Big Fat Liar as a 14-year-old pathological liar and con artist named Jason […]
Matchstick Men (2003, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Film Review 1033
Director Ridley Scott’s intriguing 2003 movie stars Nicolas Cage as neurotic phobic conman Roy and Sam Rockwell as Frank, his quirky, ambitious protégé cum sidekick. They are about to pull off a swindle on Bruce McGill when […]
Duets **** (2000, Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Angie Dickinson, Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Maria Bello) – Classic Movie Review 892
My how time flies! It’s the year 2000 and Angie Dickinson is playing Gwyneth Paltrow’s grandmother, for heaven’s sake, and Huey Lewis is playing her father in her real father Bruce Paltrow’s touching, clever, bitter-sweet […]
The Sting ***** (1973, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 790
Director George Roy Hill’s 1973 gem showcases 70s superstars Paul Newman and Robert Redford at their most charismatic in this delicious caper movie set in Thirties Chicago. It is a worthy follow-up to their first hit […]