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Let Me In **** (2010, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Dylan Minnette) – Classic Movie Review 3783

Sparks fly when the boy from The Road (2009) meets the girl from Kick-Ass (2010). Kodi Smit-McPhee plays Owen, a lonely, dorky 12-year-old boy with a telescope, prying on the neighbours. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Abby, apparently […]

May, 29

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *** (1990, Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais) – Classic Movie Review 1769

Cowabunga! Director Steve Barron was first to put the four lean and green hip, pizza-spinning superheroes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen in 1990, following the start of the half-hour ten-season 1987 TV […]

Oct, 18

Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748

  Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]

Oct, 06

Devil’s Knot *** (2013, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon) – Film Review

Director Atom Egoyan delivers an honest, conscientious and compelling film dramatization of the real-life savage murders of three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore – in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the subsequent […]

Jun, 12

Collateral Damage *** (2002, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizamo, Francesca Neri, Elias Koteas, John Turturro, Cliff Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 1081

Director Andrew Davis’s acceptable, formulaic 2002 thriller is a solid enough if unexceptional vehicle for old Austrian oak Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is back as an L.A. fire-fighter who sees his wife and son killed in a […]

Apr, 12

The Prophecy ****½ (1995, Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Viggo Mortensen, Eric Stoltz) – Classic Movie Review 817

Christopher Walken is on dazzling form here in 1995 as the angel Gabriel, who comes down to Earth to find a human soul that will end the stalemate of the second war of Heaven. But he’s not […]

Feb, 09

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

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