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Hoosiers [Best Shot] **** (1986, Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3485

Director David Anspaugh’s poignant and complex 1986 sports drama classic stars Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, a crusty burnt-out basketball coach with a troubled past who is given one last chance to salvage his career. […]

Mar, 20

Hang ’em High **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, James MacArthur, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Charles McGraw, Ben Johnson, L Q Jones, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale Jr, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3174

When Clint Eastwood returned to the US from Europe, after starring in three Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns, he was directed in Hang ’em High by Ted Post, who was a vital factor in making Eastwood […]

Dec, 20

True Grit **** (1969, John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 3170

Director Henry Hathaway’s lumbering but loved old-style 1969 Western True Grit stars John Wayne in one of his most iconic performances for which he won his only Best Actor Oscar as the fat, old, drunken […]

Dec, 19

Waterworld *** (1995, Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino) – Classic Movie Review 2544

Kevin Costner comes a cropper as the Mariner, a gilled ocean-sailor in director Kevin Reynolds’s ambitious but waterlogged 1995 futuristic action-adventure sea-saga. It is set after the polar ice caps have melted, covering the world […]

May, 30

Easy Rider ***** (1969, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Toni Basil, Phil Spector, Luke Askew, Luana Anders, Robert Walker Jr) – Classic Movie Review 1738

  The 33-year-old director Dennis Hopper’s exhilarating, liberating 1969 landmark counter-culture classic Easy Rider stars himself with Peter Fonda (29) as Billy and Wyatt (nicknamed Captain America). They are a pair of bikers who ride […]

Oct, 03

Gunfight at the OK Corral ***** (1957, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 1393

In one of their finest Westerns, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star together as marshal Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday for director John Sturges’s 1957 classic Gunfight at the OK Corral. It certainly deserves […]

Jul, 04

EDtv *** (1999, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Ellen Degeneres, Martin Landau, Jenna Elfman, Sally Kirkland, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1197

Would you like to be filmed waking up in bed on live TV? That’s exactly what happens to Matthew McConaughey as the dazed and confused Ed, an unambitious video store clerk who is plucked from […]

May, 10

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