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Posts Tagged "Joe Dante"
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The ‘Burbs *** (1989, Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman) – Classic Movie Review 2981
Director Joe Dante’s entertaining, quietly frenzied 1989 comedy stars the funny and charming young Tom Hanks, who shows his consummate comedy skills as down-to-earth, if overstressed suburbanite Ray Peterson. His peaceful existence is shattered when he joins […]
Looney Tunes: Back in Action *** (2003, Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 2559
Director Joe Dante’s 2004 movie finds Warner Bros following up their 1996 Space Jam hit with a new mix of animation and live action. This time Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny are embroiled in twin […]
A Fuller Life ***½ (2013, Samuel Fuller, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, Wim Wenders, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bill Duke) – Movie Review
A Fuller Life is a must-see documentary on the life and movies of maverick film director Sam Fuller, poignantly directed by his daughter Samantha, who bursts with curiosity and pride about her dad. Friends and […]
Small Soldiers *** (1998, Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, David Cross, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Dick Miller, Ann Magnuson, Dennis Leary) – Classic Movie Review 1175
Director Joe Dante’s 1998 release is a patchy but lively and exuberant toy-action comedy adventure. The tale is daft and thin, but there are plenty of goodish jokes to spin it out in the adroit […]
Gremlins 2: The New Batch **** (1990, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Christopher Lee, Dick Miller, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 551
It’s 1990 and six years after the first Gremlins movie, and Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates are back as nice young sweethearts Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer. They are soon reunited with their cute mogwai […]
Explorers **** (1985, Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Bobby Fite) – Classic Movie Review 297
In director Joe Dante’s highly engaging 1985 sci-fi fantasy, a trio of American schoolboys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson) hastily launch themselves into space in a rickety home-made starship and encounter wacky and weird […]
Gremlins ***** (1984, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Dick Miller, Harry Carey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 64
Brilliantly on-form director Joe Dante and writer Chris Columbus deliver a perfectly delightful and deliciously cynical horror comedy in Gremlins in 1984. It is great vicious fun throughout and now a treasured, minor little classic […]
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