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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous – Classic Film Review 580

After a string of disappointments, Sandra Bullock in 2005 revisits the scene of her last big success, Miss Congeniality in 2000, and comes up with – another disappointment. The always-likeable Bullock is fine and funny […]

Dec, 28

Fast & Furious *** (2009, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster) – Classic Movie Review 542

For the first time since 2001’s The Fast and the Furious, original models Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reunite in 2009 for a new part – episode four of the total-testosterone exotic cars saga, directed […]

Dec, 16

Miss Congeniality ***½ (2000, Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 510

Sandra Bullock sparkles in director Donald Petrie’s 2000 congenial comedy in an ideal role as tough and scruffy FBI agent Gracie Hart. She’s forced by the FBI to go undercover and take part in the […]

Dec, 13

Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217

This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]

Sep, 03

Catch Me If You Can ***** (2002, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 175

Steven Spielberg’s 2002 spellbinder proved one of his best films in years. It is an ultra-delicious, super-vibrant entertainment with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks perfectly cast and on fire as a real-life con artist and […]

Aug, 19

Manhunter ***** (1986, William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 136

Michael Mann’s much-admired 1986 thriller film Manhunter is dark, dangerous and scary. Brian Cox plays the jailed cannibal serial killer Hannibal, asked to help FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen) catch the Tooth Fairy. In […]

Aug, 08

Hannibal ***** (2001, Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Giancarlo Giannini, Ray Liotta) – Classic Movie Review 135

Ray Liotta is a splendidly sweaty villain as nasty FBI boss Paul Krendler, who makes the fatal mistake of being rude to Clarice, in the 2001 horror film Hannibal. ‘It’s distress that excites him.’ Thomas […]

Aug, 08

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