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My Boss’s Daughter ** (2003, Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 1892

Director David Zucker’s 2003 comedy stars Ashton Kutcher as amiable publishing boy Tom, who reluctantly agrees to house-sit for his grouchy boss Jack (Terence Stamp) so that he can romance his sexy daughter Lisa (Tara […]

Nov, 28

City Hall **** (1996, Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau, David Paymer, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 1508

Director Harold Becker’s 1996 true-story drama exposes shame and scandal in New York city as an innocent child is killed in the crossfire by a stray bullet when a drug dealer and an undercover cop shoot […]

Aug, 02

City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194

Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]

May, 09

The Rules of Attraction **** (2002, James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Kate Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 956

Producer-writer-director Roger Avary’s 2002 corrosive black comedy, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, is crazy tale of intertwining lives at college, centring on a frustrated love quartet. James Van […]

Mar, 22

Out of the Furnace **** (2013, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker) – Movie Review

In America’s economically-depressed North-eastern Rust Belt, two brothers are struggling. While poor steel factory worker Russell lands in prison, his younger brother Rodney becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the area. […]

Jan, 29

Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 660

Daniel Craig stars as a London-based criminal who wants to quit the cocaine business, in debut director Matthew Vaughn’s better-than-most 2004 British crime film Layer Cake. Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one […]

Jan, 10

25th Hour – Classic Film Review 480

In 2002, director Spike Lee turns in a particularly gritty, provocative, moving and emotionally satisfying movie. Edward Norton is scaldingly good as convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan sentenced to a seven-year jail term, but enjoying his last 24 hours […]

Dec, 07

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