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Gerry *** (2002, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 1374

There is no doubt that co-writer/director Gus Van Sant’s 2002 drama has Waiting for Godot on its mind as an inspiration and template. Two 20something blokes – both called Gerry for no particular reason – […]

Jun, 29

Boys Don’t Cry **** (1999, Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 1372

Co-writer/director Kimberly Peirce’s 1999 drama stars Hilary Swank, who won a deserved Best Actress Oscar for her astounding performance as young Teena Brandon, who choses to live as a man – Brandon Teena. This outrages […]

Jun, 28

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ***** (1948, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt) – Classic Movie Review 1,350

John Huston’s renowned 1948 adventure thriller film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre showcases one of Humphrey Bogart’s finest hours as the greedy Fred C Dobbs, one of three itinerant American prospectors, who try to […]

Jun, 22

Ride with the Devil **** (1999, Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 1325

Director Ang Lee’s splendid 1999 American Civil War Western flopped at the box office but it is a near-masterpiece with great ambition, scope and visual sweep. Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as Missouri boys Jake […]

Jun, 15

Along Came Polly *** (2004, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1320

Writer-director John Hamburg’s amiable enough 2004 romantic comedy has a super-good cast to get over its bumps and make it work. Risk assessor Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) dumps his new wife Lisa (Debra Messing) after […]

Jun, 13

Among Giants *** (1998, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton, Lennie James, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 1284

Director Sam Miller’s 1998 film is a likeable, moving and highly charged love story based around the strange lives and dangerous passions of a group of pylon painters on the Yorkshire moors. Pete Postlethwaite plays […]

Jun, 02

Big Fat Liar *** (2002, Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes) – Classic Movie Review 1275

Frankie Muniz, so good in TV’s Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006), is enjoyable here in director Shawn Levy’s amiable 2002 American teen comedy Big Fat Liar as a 14-year-old pathological liar and con artist named Jason […]

Jun, 01

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