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Bubble Boy *** (2001, Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton) – Classic Movie Review 1727

The 20-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal gives an appealing, expert performance in director Blair Hayes’s 2001 drama. Gyllenhaal does wonders with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio’s tricky romantic comedy script about an immune-deficient boy called Jimmy Livingston. […]

Oct, 01

The Salton Sea *** (2002, Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1625

Director D J Caruso’s gritty and exciting 2002 all-star thriller stars Val Kilmer as Danny Parker, who adopts a new lowlife identity and goes among drug pushers and crooks to find his beloved wife’s killers. […]

Sep, 02

Animal Factory *** (2000, Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 1467

Director Steve Buscemi’s janglingly edgy 2000 movie stars Willem Dafoe as a shaven-headed old lag takes drug-dealing rich lad Edward Furlong under his wing. Furlong ‘s slight, privileged kid Ron Decker has landed up in San Quentin jail […]

Jul, 24

Anaconda ** (1997, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz , Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Jonathan Hyde) – So Bad It’s Good Movie Review 10

Director Luis Llosa’s 1997 monster-movie thriller Anaconda is sublimely ridiculous, with the big Anaconda snake threatening an Amazon film-doc expedition. It may have a few likeable down-on-their-luck stars in in it, but it’s risible rock-bottom […]

Mar, 27

Bullet (Danny Trejo) – Film Review

Danny Trejo (Machete, Breaking Bad) stars as Frank ‘Bullet’ Marasco, a cop who takes the law and a lot of guns into his own hands when his little grandson Mario (Kyle Villalovos) is kidnapped, in […]

Mar, 06

Desperado **** (1995, Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida ) – Classic Movie Review 594

Though writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s 1995 movie masquerades as a sequel to his prize-winning breakthrough independent movie El Mariachi (1992), this is actually more or less a big-budget remake. Antonio Banderas successfully takes over the role of the […]

Dec, 30

Predators *** (2010, Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo) – Classic Movie Review 560

A small group of folk – most of them kick-ass fighters with big guns and knives – find themselves weirdly parachuted down onto an alien planet, largely covered in jungle. They soon encounter the famous […]

Dec, 22

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