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Joy **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen) – Movie Review

An exceptional cast is assembled for Joy, the story of an Italian-American family across four generations and Joy Mangano, the young woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. But Jennifer […]

Dec, 20

Accidental Love ** (2015, Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review

The story behind Accidental Love is perhaps more interesting than the movie itself. American Hustle director David O Russell filmed this screwball political satire back in 2008, but it hit finance problems and he and […]

Jun, 18

Spanking the Monkey *** (1994, Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson) – Classic Movie Review 1663

Director David O Russell’s clever, funny 1994 black comedy stars Jeremy Davies as a teenage lad, promising medical student Ray Abielli, who is forced by his bullying travelling salesman father Tom (Benjamin Hendrickson) to stay […]

Sep, 12

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

I Heart Huckabees *** (2004, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 1661

Jason Schwartzman stars as Albert Markovski, an isolated conservationist, activist and poet who hires husband-and-wife team of existential detectives Bernard and Vivian (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to get him back on the rails in […]

Sep, 11

American Hustle *** (2013, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence) – Film Review

In his follow-up to Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell’s fictional con caper movie (‘Some of this actually happened’) is set in the shady world of corruption, sting and scandal in 70s America and tells […]

Dec, 18

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