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- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
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John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286
Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]
The Hot Chick ** (2002, Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Rachel McAdams, Eric Christian Olsen, Matthew Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 1967
Co-writer/director Tom Brady’s crude and limp 2002 body-swap fantasy comedy stars Rob Schneider as a crook called Clive Maxtone, who trades places with a hot high-school cheerleader, Jessica Spencer (Rachel McAdams). She’s a sexy and […]
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion *** (2001, Woody Allen, Helen Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 1803
Writer-director-star Woody Allen’s carefree 2001 comedy is fun up to a point, with enough funny gags and amusing situations to keep the mood happy and the movie likeable. In the daft, nostalgic yarn, Allen plays […]
Domestic Disturbance ** (2001, John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, Teri Polo) – Classic Movie Review 1511
It’s dad (John Travolta) to the rescue when a 12-year-old boy (Matt O’Leary)’s mom (Teri Polo) remarries and the kid is terrified by the stepfather-from-hell (Vince Vaughn). All too soon it turns out the Vaughn […]
Kangaroo Jack * (2003, Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken) – Bad Movie 7
Director David McNally’s 2003 comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bad. In a lull in his brilliant career, Christopher Walken plays a Mob boss called Salvatore ‘Sal’ Maggio, who despatches his New York hairstylist stepson […]
Bob le Flambeur ***** (1955, dir Jean-Pierre Melville) Classic Movie Review 1390
Both co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville and star Roger Duchesne knew the underworld at first hand, and it clearly shows here in their classic hardboiled 1955 French crime thriller, which provided inspiration for the French New Wave […]
Born Yesterday ***** (1950, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 1307
Director George Cukor’s 1950 comedy classic stars the scintillating Judy Holliday, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Billie Dawn, the delightfully ditzy showgirl mistress of brash and boorish millionaire junk-metal dealer Harry Brock (Broderick […]