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Director Robert Zemeckis’s 2000 thriller stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a New England middle-aged housewife who is happily married to well-to-do genetics professor Harrison Ford. And they really seem to have an idyllic life in their […]
As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]
Who ya gonna call? Producer-director Ivan Reitman’s 1984 special effects-led sci-fi comedy blockbuster Ghostbusters was boosted to huge popular success by Ray Parker Jnr’s hit song and a great ad campaign featuring a ghost sign […]
Steven Spielberg decides in 1995 to produce the live-action debut of beloved cartoon friendly ghost Casper. But casting young Christina Ricci, (once Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and now 15) as the heroine gives her […]
Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]
Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star turn as Frank Cross, a hateful, curmudgeonly, Scrooge-like American TV executive, in the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Director Richard Donner’s 1988 update on Charles Dickens’s perennially […]
‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]