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The Anderson Tapes **** (1971, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken, Alan King, Ralph Meeker, Val Avery) – Classic Movie Review 571

Sean Connery, with hair!, is on riveting form as ex-convict Duke Anderson, who is under surveillance in New York City after serving 10 years for safe-breaking. He visits his old girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon) and conceives […]

Dec, 23

Gigli (2003, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 3

OK, look, everyone has bad days. But if you’re a huge movie star, everyone else gets to know about it. Made at the height of the wildly overheated international publicity over the romance of its […]

Nov, 18

Analyze This **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 345

Director Harold Ramis’s 1999 laughter-raiser is a hilarious Mafia comedy, with Robert De Niro deliciously sending up his Don Vito Corleone role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Crystal ideally cast as the nervous […]

Oct, 31

After Hours **** (1985, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 331

Largely forgotten actor Griffin Dunne stars as a computer programmer who finds his casual date with a  young woman exploding in his face. His one rash decision turns immediately into a surreal nightmare of mistaken […]

Oct, 27

White Heat ***** (1949, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 147

James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]

Aug, 10

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, […]

Jul, 24

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 […]

Jul, 17

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