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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? **** (1969, Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 2052

Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]

Jan, 05

Monster-in-Law **½ (2005, Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Elaine Stritch, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 2046

After a gap of 15 years (since 1990’s Stanley & Iris), the 67-year-old movie legend Jane Fonda returns to the screen in 2005 in a monster part as the prospective mother-in-law from hell who takes […]

Jan, 04

The Morning After **½ (1986, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia) – Classic Movie Review 2044

‘Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust? The Morning After …can be murder”. Director Sidney Lumet’s potboiling […]

Jan, 04

Klute ***** (1971, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Jean Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 1153

Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]

Apr, 28

The China Syndrome ***** (1979, Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 900

Jack Lemmon stars as Jack Godell, a nuclear power plant controller who finds a dangerous fault in the plant that the authorities will do anything to keep from the media, in co-writer/director James Bridges’s riveting […]

Mar, 11

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