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Terror Train *** (1980, Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner) – Classic Movie Review 10,624

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s debut is the 1980 Canadian horror thriller Terror Train, a cultish, above-average stalk and slash movie, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis – then the cinema’s best screamer since Fay Wray – as one […]

Dec, 03

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon *** (1988, River Phoenix, Ann Magnuson, Meredith Salenger, Ione Skye, Louanne, Matthew Perry) – Classic Movie Review 4,092

Matthew Perry made his big screen debut in the 1988 American coming of age drama film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, starring River Phoenix. In the Chicago suburb of Evanston (illinois) in 1962, […]

Jul, 27

Life Begins for Andy Hardy *** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 3617

Or rather, Working Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Mickey Rooney stars again in Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941) as Andy Hardy, who this time heads off to New York City to find work. Too […]

Apr, 25

Can’t Hardly Wait ***½ (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Seth Green, Peter Facinelli) – Classic Movie Review 1966

Writer-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan’s multi-character 1998 teenage comedy romance Can’t Hardly Wait focuses on American high-schoolers on the last night before graduation who naturally can’t hardly wait for their lives to begin for real. In […]

Dec, 16

St Elmo’s Fire *** (1985, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham) – Classic Movie Review 1822

Director Joel Schumacher’s fondly remembered 1985 ensemble romantic drama is a haunting showcase for a host of Eighties Brat Packer actors. Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Mare […]

Nov, 09

Boys and Girls ** (2000, Freddie Prinze Jr, Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs) – Classic Movie Review 1499

Director Robert Iscove and star Freddie Prinze Jr re-unite in 2000 after She’s All That (1999), but with slightly less entertaining results. Shy bookworm Ryan (Prinze Jr) and the outgoing, free-spirited Jennifer (Claire Forlani) couldn’t […]

Jul, 31

Crossroads * (2002, Britney Spears, Zoë Saldana, Taryn Manning, Kim Cattrall, Justin Long) – Bad Movie 6

In director Tamra Davis’s 2002 drama, pop diva Britney Spears makes an unwise crossover to the movies, acting forlornly and singing to little effect as a girl at the crossroads of her life. The yarn […]

Jul, 13

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