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Buster and Billie **** (1974, Jan-Michael Vincent, Pamela Sue Martin, Joan Goodfellow, Clifton James, Robert Englund) – Classic Movie Review 1,602

The 1974 coming-of-age drama film Buster and Billie focuses on a 1940s romance in a small town in the Georgia countryside, and is lit up with an appealing performance by the young Jan-Michael Vincent as […]

Aug, 29

Coach Carter *** (2005, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1563

Director Thomas Carter’s 2005 sports drama stars Samuel L Jackson, who brings a lot of fire and passion to this rather clichéd and over-familiar real-life story of Ken Carter, a controversial basketball coach of the […]

Aug, 17

Liberty Heights **** (1999, Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Bebe Neuwirth) – Classic Movie Review 1546

Writer-director Barry Levinson’s posh, intelligent, enjoyable if rambling 1999 coming-of-age drama centres on two Jewish brothers in Baltimore in 1954-55. It boasts powerful, committed performances from a strong cast headed by Adrien Brody, Ben Foster , Joe […]

Aug, 15

All the Right Moves *** (1983, Tom Cruise, Craig T Nelson, Lea Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1522

Director Michael Chapman’s sensitive 1983 sports and coming-of-age drama All the Right Moves provides an engaging early vehicle for Tom Cruise. The megastar-to-be is on compelling and convincing form as Stefen Djordjevic, an eager and stubborn […]

Aug, 05

Wild Things *** (1998, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 1520

Director John McNaughton’s extremely sexy, smart, twisting and teasing 1998 teen thriller perhaps doesn’t quite deliver the class A goods, but it does a very good job of gripping, amusing and entertaining a lot along […]

Aug, 05

Grease ***** (1978, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 1478

Re-released in cinemas for its 20th birthday in 1998 and again for its 40th birthday in 2018, director Randal Kleiser’s breathlessly exuberant, joyous 1978 movie of Grease, Broadway’s second longest running musical after A Chorus […]

Jul, 26

Detroit Rock City *** (1999, Edward Furlong) – Classic Movie Review 1469

Director Adam Rifkin’s 1999 coming of age comedy drama stars the talented Edward Furlong in the period when his career was still shining. Everything goes wrong for four Cleveland teenage kids (Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, James […]

Jul, 25

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