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Grandma ***½ (2015, Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott, Nat Wolff) – Movie Review

Odd film, Grandma, sad and uncomfortable, yet funny, truthful and haunting. For all its rough edges, it works really well with a sharp breath of fresh air and is memorable for giving a grand role […]

Nov, 11

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 […]

Jan, 28

The Late Show ***** (1977, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Joanna Cassidy, Eugene Roche, John Considine) – Classic Movie Review 2072

Writer-director Robert Benton (Kramer vs, Kramer) brings all his brio and class to this stupendous, utterly beguiling 1977 neo-noir mystery movie, the fondest possible homage you could imagine to 40s film noir detective thrillers. It’s advertised as […]

Jan, 12

Orange County *** (2002, Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk) – Classic Movie Review 1743

Colin Hanks (son of Tom) proves a chip off the old block as an expert comedy performer, playing Shaun Brumder, a California high school surfer kid who dreams of going to Stanford University to quit […]

Oct, 04

Admission *** (2013, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Lily Tomlin) – Movie Review

Director Paul (About a Boy) Weitz’s niche comedy focuses on a middle-aged woman who’s spent the last 16 years vetting applications from brilliant young aspiring students desperate to get into the elite Princeton uni. Tina […]

Sep, 21

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

I Heart Huckabees *** (2004, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 1661

Jason Schwartzman stars as Albert Markovski, an isolated conservationist, activist and poet who hires husband-and-wife team of existential detectives Bernard and Vivian (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to get him back on the rails in […]

Sep, 11

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