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Pretty Poison **** (1968, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 6335
At the top of their game, Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld are stupendous in director Noel Black’s satisfying, offbeat 1968 thriller based on Stephen Geller’s novel She Let Him Continue, mixing in a little twisted […]
Billy Madison * (1995, Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 6324
Adam Sandler’s early effort Billy Madison is a struggle to sit through. To inherit the wealth of his hotel chain boss dad (Darren McGavin), 27-year-old Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) has to go bad to school […]
Mr Holland’s Opus **** (1995, Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 5569
Oscar nominated as Best Actor, Richard Dreyfuss is excellent as Mr Glenn Holland, a music teacher recalling his 40-year career – and his failure as his true vocation of being a composer – on the […]
Scott Pilgrim vs the World **** (2010, Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Ellen Wong, Johnny Simmons, Alison Pill, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman) – Movie Review 5528
Michael Cera is hilarious as 22-year-old geeky, jobless, band member Scott Pilgrim, who is a surprising hit with the girls. Pale and skinny are the new brown and brawny. The only problem is his latest […]
Red Dawn **** (1984, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Ron O’Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey) – Classic Movie Review 5457
Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action thriller Any Which Way You Can is thoroughly disreputable, but also sneakily very enjoyable as a guilty pleasure. In Milius’s screenplay with Kevin Reynolds (who […]
The Great Santini ***½ (1979, Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O’Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky) – Classic Movie Review 5398
The Great Santini has got one of those corny taglines that might actually put people off watching a movie: ‘The bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him.’ When the tagline […]
Waterland **½ (1992, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Grant Warnock, David Morrissey, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 5137
Jeremy Irons stars as a Tom Crick, a disillusioned high school history teacher who has been a teacher in an American school for 20 years but is having trouble connecting with his students and his […]