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Foxes *** (1980, Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 8245

Director Adrian Lyne’s 1980 drama Foxes stars Jodie Foster as Jeanie, a teenager from a broken home who plays mother to three other young girls sharing a Los Angeles flat in the San Fernando Valley. […]

Mar, 14

Beyond Bedlam * (1994, Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3792

‘Psychological Terror Beyond Your Wildest Nightmares.’ Co-writer/director Vadim Jean’s 1994 British psychological murder thriller is an unappealing, far-fetched and slackly handled movie. In the story, based on the novel Bedlam by John Brosnan (writing as Harry Adam […]

May, 30

The Oblong Box *** (1969, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Sally Geeson, Rupert Davies, Michael Balfour, Maxwell Shaw, Harry Baird) – Classic Movie Review 2,832

Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in AIP’s tasty, effective 1969 gothic shocker horror film The Oblong Box. Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in […]

Aug, 19

Another Day in Paradise **** (1998, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1657

  The amazing James Woods turns in one of his most stonking performances as the leader of a thieving gang of white-trash lowlifes in this scalding 1998 thriller from director Larry Clark, maker of the […]

Sep, 08

The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815

Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]

Feb, 09

Max Payne *** (2008, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Olga Kurylenko, Ludacris, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 783

‘I don’t believe in heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death.’ Mmmm… Muscle man tough guy Mark Wahlberg is ideally cast in 2008 as Max Payne, a NYPD detective obsessed […]

Feb, 01

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde **** (1941, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 780

Victor Fleming’s 1941 remake of the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde met with poor reviews in its day. Despite it drawbacks, mainly the casting, Dr […]

Jan, 31

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