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Lush Life *** (1993, Jeff Goldblum, Forest Whitaker, Kathy Baker, Don Cheadle, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 2893
Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as life-long best buddies who play jazz in New York clubs in writer-director Michael Elias’s atmospheric, stirring, emotion-packed 1993 drama, as seen though clouds of alcohol and cigarette smoke. […]
Short Cuts ***** (1993, Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 2123
Writer-director Robert Altman’s masterly 1993 take on Los Angeles, re-created from nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver, is an ambitious and extraordinary creation. The meeting of two American cult masters is fully the momentous movie occasion […]
Sweet and Lowdown *** (1999, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Uma Thurman, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 1802
Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1999 Jazz Age fable takes the form of a fanciful, fictional tribute to the legendary 30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who was second only to Django Reinhardt as a music […]
Big Night **** (1995, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 1692
Co-writer/co-director/star Stanley Tucci’s flavourful 1995 labour-of-love food movie comedy is a civilised pleasure to watch. Tucci and Tony Shalhoub star as Secondo and Primo, the Italian Pilaggi brothers, who open a restaurant in 50s […]
Lost Highway ***½ (1997, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) – Classic Movie Review 1315
Co-writer/director David Lynch’s infuriating, but imaginative and thrilling-looking 1997 surreal thriller film Lost Highway stars Bill Pullman as saxophonist Fred Madison, who dreams that he and his wife Renée (Patricia Arquette) are being watched by […]
High Society **** (1956, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Film Review 1229
Director Charles Walters’s 1956 movie is a classy, pleasurable, richly enjoyable musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940). The sharply acidic social romantic comedy of the original is reworked by MGM as a smooth, glossy and ultra-plush […]
That Thing You Do! *** (Tom Everett Scott, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron) – Classic Film Review 850
In every life there comes a time when that dream you dream becomes that thing you do, it says on the publicity here. That thing Tom Hanks used to do was to be a truly […]