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Connie and Carla **** (2004, Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny) – Classic Movie Review 516
Club singer showgirls Connie (Nia Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) accidentally witness a Mafia hit in Chicago and have to go on the run from their boss’s killer. So they hide out as drag queens – […]
The Family *** (2013, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, John D’Leo) – Movie Review
Thanks to some fresh ideas and the right cast, this is an enjoyable, darkly funny, violent comedy riff on the Mafia thriller. The central idea is a great one, providing a new spin on the old […]
Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217
This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]
Casino ***** (1995, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King) – Classic Movie Review 83
Actors Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (again playing canny and crazed gangsters), director Martin Scorsese and writer Nicholas Pileggi take up where they left off in Goodfellas, taking a gamble on retreading old ground, […]
GoodFellas ***** (1990, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 58
Director Martin Scorsese employs Robert De Niro in 1990 for the sixth time in his 30-year real-life gangster epic GoodFellas, one of his key masterworks. It motors on the sizzling Oscar-nominated screenplay he co-wrote with Nicholas […]
The Godfather: Part III ****½ (1990, Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, Sofia Coppola, Raf Vallone, Donal Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 28
Michael Corleone: ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Quibbles apart, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 crime film The Godfather: Part III is a worthy successor to his first two films. There […]
The Godfather: Part II ***** (1974, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg, Michael V Gazzo, Troy Donahue, G D Spradlin, Richard Bright, Morgana King) – Classic Movie Review 3
‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Part II of The Godfather starts in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 1958, with the tormented Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) now head of the ‘family’, having inherited the […]