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Mean Creek **** (2004, Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz) – Classic Movie Review 966

Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes’s 2004 well-crafted revenge thriller is taut, tense, creepy and a little bit scary. In Stephen King Stand By Me mode, it’s an unsettling little thought provoker as well as fear ride. Rory […]

Mar, 22

Road Trip *** (2000, Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, D J Qualls, Paolo Costanzo) – Classic Movie Review 958

Co-writer/director Todd Phillips’s 2000 comedy is a hoot from the man who went on to make Old School and The Hangover, which are much in the same vein. Breckin Meyer stars as New York student […]

Mar, 22

Old School *** (2003, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 955

Co-writer/director Todd Phillips’s goofy, raunchy 2003 teen comedy stars the highly likeable Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell as wacky thirtysomething guys who try to recapture their lost youth by living it up in […]

Mar, 21

Bend It Like Beckham **** (2002, Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers) – Classic Movie Review 950

Co-writer/director Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 movie focuses on two 18-year-old girls who chase their dreams of playing professional soccer in this goal-scoring comedy. Jess (Parminder Nagra) just wants to play like her hero David Beckham, but […]

Mar, 20

The Broken Hearts Club **** (2000, Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, Ben Weber, John Mahoney, Mary McCormack, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 929

Writer-director Greg Berlanti’s 2000 comedy is that rare mainstream movie – a quality, funny, perceptive, life-affirming character study of a group of gay men living, loving and bitching in West Hollywood, LA. Happily, in the […]

Mar, 17

The Last Days of Disco *** (1998, Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Film Review 920

Modish cult writer-producer-director Whit Stillman’s 1998 musical romantic comedy drama stars Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, who are among a group of friends hanging out at a trendy New York disco in the late 80s […]

Mar, 16

Dreamcatcher **** (2003, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 919

Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]

Mar, 16

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