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Hot Shots! **** (1991, Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kristy Swanson, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 8862
Director Jim Abrahams’s 1991 Hot Shots! is an often hilarious Airplane!-style parody of Top Gun and all the other aviator movies (plus for good measure and for no particular reason Dances with Wolves, Gone with […]
Letters from Baghdad *** (2016, voice of Tilda Swinton) – Movie Review
Tilda Swinton throws her considerable weight as narrator and executive producer behind this fascinating documentary about Gertrude Bell, British adventurer, archaeologist and political mover, who helped to shape the destiny of Iraq after World War One. […]
Out of Iraq ***½ (2016, Nayyef Hrebid, Hayder ‘Btoo’ Allami, Michael Failla) – Movie Review
Directors Chris McKim and Eva Orner’s emotionally thrilling 2016 documentary is a great story with a happy ending well told. Usually happy stories don’t make good films, but this one does, as there’s plenty of high […]
Three Kings **** (1999, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze) – Classic Movie Review 4618
Writer-director David O Russell’s brilliant American satirical black comedy anti-war movie is based on a story by John Ridley. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze star as adventurous American soldiers during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein, who […]
War Dogs **** (2016, Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Steve Lantz, Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak) – Movie Review
Jonah Hill is great in his best The Wolf of Wall Street mode as real-life buccaneering wheeler and dealer Efraim Diveroli, who started up in the shady arms dealing business with his friend David Packouz (Miles […]
Route Irish **** (2010, Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Geoff Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3968
Ken Loach’s excitingly labyrinthine and darkly harrowing revenge and conspiracy thriller has plenty of the viscerally powerful impact we expect of the director. An excellently cast Mark Womack relishes a stonking star role as ex-soldier […]
The A-Team ** (2010, Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3844
Much, much worse than the movies of other classic TV shows Mission: Impossible or Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team TV movie spinoff is total nonsense, of course. But what else can you expect? The A-Team is […]