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The Big Short **** (2015, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Adam McKay’s dynamic and janglingly vibrating movie tells three separate but parallel true stories of the America mortgage housing crisis of 2005 like it’s a near cousin of The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s […]

Jan, 14

Four Rooms * (1995, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Salma Hayek, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3056

Tim Roth plays an unlikely bellboy visiting the title’s four hotel rooms in this lacklustre 1995 portmanteau movie comedy, showing clearly why these kinds of films are out of fashion. Even good directors, it seems, […]

Nov, 14

Welcome to Sarajevo *** (1997, Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3042

The story of ITN newsman Michael Nicholson is re-told in director Michael Winterbottom’s complex, hard-hitting 1997 movie take on the conflict in Bosnia. Stephen Dillane exudes earnest propriety as the British TV journalist (slightly fictionalised […]

Nov, 07

Love Is Strange **** (2014, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are inspired to give perhaps their best ever acting in co-writer-director Ira Sachs’s haunting and moving drama. Adorable, so sweet and subtle and touching, Love Is Strange really gets to you. Lithgow […]

Jan, 15

The Flamingo Kid **** (1984, Matt Dillon, Hector Elizondo, Richard Crenna, Molly McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 2010

Director Garry Marshall’s warm and delightful 1984 coming of age teen comedy treasure stars the young, fresh and talented Matt Dillon as Jeffrey Willis, a nice kid from Brooklyn who has just finished high school […]

Dec, 29

Animal Attraction ** (2001, Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 1973

Director Tony Goldwyn’s 2001 romantic comedy stars Ashley Judd as Jane Goodale, a TV producer and talent scout of a popular daytime talk show, who is unexpectedly jilted by her boyfriend, the show’s dashing executive […]

Dec, 18

The Rewrite **** (2014, Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

Hugh Grant is back being funny as Keith Michaels, a burnt-out Hollywood-based Oscar-winning Best Screenplay writer, whose agent finds him some desperately needed work teaching a screenwriting course at a college on the East Coast. It’s Binghamton, […]

Oct, 09

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