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Deliverance ***** (1972, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) – Classic Movie Review 3595

Producer-director John Boorman’s disturbing and chilling but thrilling 1972 adventure nightmare suspense thriller with a message is one of the key films of its era and an influential game-changer for this kind of story. It […]

Apr, 21

Holes **** (2003, Shia LaBoeuf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Winkler, Dulé Hill, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 3031

Director Andrew Davis’s 2003 Disney drama stars Shia LaBoeuf as a wrongfully convicted boy thief called Stanley, who is sent to a brutal young offenders’ detention camp, where the warden (Sigourney Weaver), the deputy by […]

Nov, 03

U Turn ** (1997, Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 2083

Director Oliver Stone goes for overkill again with another gorefest in this 1997 pounding mix of his 1994 Natural Born Killers and film noir that gives your senses a hammering. Sean Penn stars as a […]

Jan, 17

Hour of the Gun **** (1967, James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 2082

Director John Sturges revisits the same material as his 1957 classic Western Gunfight at the OK Corral when he directs this more historically accurate, but comparatively little known 1967 sequel of sorts. This first-rate movie boasts outstanding performances […]

Jan, 17

Coming Home ***** (1978, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty) – Classic Movie Review 2053

Director Hal Ashby’s high-impact, liberal-minded, issue-led 1978 triple Oscar-winning classic triumphed at the Academy Awards. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress as Luke Martin, a bitter, wheelchair-bound Vietnam […]

Jan, 06

Mission: Impossible *** (1996, Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1289

Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]

Jun, 04

Anaconda ** (1997, Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz , Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo, Jonathan Hyde) – So Bad It’s Good Movie Review 10

Director Luis Llosa’s 1997 monster-movie thriller Anaconda is sublimely ridiculous, with the big Anaconda snake threatening an Amazon film-doc expedition. It may have a few likeable down-on-their-luck stars in in it, but it’s risible rock-bottom […]

Mar, 27

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