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High Spirits ** (1988, Peter O’Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly d’Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson, Peter Gallagher, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 3360

High Spirits is a gleeful chunk of Irish blarney from the usually heavyweight writer-director Neil Jordan. The critical success of Jordan’s early movies led him from Ireland to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and […]

Feb, 14

Splash! **** (1984, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 3145

Director Ron Howard’s 1984 fantasy romantic comedy is a wonderfully engaging hit funny fishy tale in which Tom Hanks made his biggest splash in the movies up to that time as the goofy guy in […]

Dec, 11

Wall Street ***** (1987, Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 2068

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1987 financial drama summons up the get-rich-quick 80s era better than most other movies and added a couple of indelible phrases into the language: ‘greed is good’ and ‘lunch is for wimps’. Though the […]

Jan, 10

A Walk to Remember *** (2002, Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 2023

Director Adam Shankman’s 2002 romance delivers another of Nicholas Sparks’s bestselling novels successfully to the screen, following Message in a Bottle in 1999. Shane West stars as a cocky, tearaway North Carolina student called Landon Carter, […]

Dec, 30

The Real Blonde **** (1997, Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Marlo Thomas, Maxwell Caulfield) – Classic Movie Review 1781

Writer-director Tom DiCillo’s bright 1997 showbiz comedy stars a well-paired and charismatic Matthew Modine and Catherine Keener. They are very appealing as a struggling actor and his makeup artist girlfriend in this thoroughly likeable, funny and […]

Oct, 25

Addams Family Reunion ** (1998, Daryl Hannah, Tim Curry, Patrick Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1604

The Addams Family just isn’t the same when it’s a different family. Director David Payne’s 1998 second sequel to the 1991 hit The Addams Family is a mediocre, if watchable made-for-video black comedy based on […]

Aug, 30

Grumpy Old Men *** (1993, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 1454

Director Donald Petrie’s 1993 romantic comedy is neither sharp nor witty, yet it’s appealing and often funny. It was exceedingly popular and spawned a sequel, Grumpier Old Men, in 1995. In older age, Jack Lemmon […]

Jul, 20

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