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Big Fat Liar *** (2002, Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes) – Classic Movie Review 1275

Frankie Muniz, so good in TV’s Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006), is enjoyable here in director Shawn Levy’s amiable 2002 American teen comedy Big Fat Liar as a 14-year-old pathological liar and con artist named Jason […]

Jun, 01

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 *** (2014, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field) – Movie Review

Andrew Garfield returns in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) as Peter Parker, who starts off late for his high-school graduation, with a good excuse about checking up on some stolen plutonium. But he’s just in […]

Apr, 17

Confidence *** (2003, Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia, Paul Giamatti,Morris Chestnut, Luis Guzman) – Classic Movie Review 1009

Edward Burns stars as a conman who takes on creepy, sadistic crime boss (played by Dustin Hoffman) in a twisty, nicely crafted, arty-farty Sting-style film noir crime-caper from director James Foley in 2003. It’s packed […]

Mar, 28

Duets **** (2000, Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Angie Dickinson, Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Maria Bello) – Classic Movie Review 892

My how time flies! It’s the year 2000 and Angie Dickinson is playing Gwyneth Paltrow’s grandmother, for heaven’s sake, and Huey Lewis is playing her father in her real father Bruce Paltrow’s touching, clever, bitter-sweet […]

Mar, 10

Sideways **** (2004, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh) – Classic Movie Review 456

Co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s appealing 2004 little gem won him his first Best Screenplay Oscar. Adapted from the novel by Rex Pickett, Payne’s script is co-written by Jim Taylor, like his earlier film Election (1999). Paul […]

Nov, 27

Parkland **** (2013, James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley, Tom Welling, Colin Hanks, David Harbour, Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Livingston, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Paul Giamatti) – Film Review

Writer-director Peter Landesman’s 2013 American historical drama film Parkland re-creates the events that occurred after the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. A stellar cast is lined up for this ‘you-are-there’ realist-style recounting of the […]

Nov, 21

Saving Mr Banks **** (2013, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Ruth Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Jason Schwartzman, B J Novak, Kathy Baker) – Film Review

Double Oscar-winners Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks star as Mary Poppins author P.L. (Pamela) Travers and Walt Disney, in this sweet, funny, charming and quite haunting film. Exceptional through the story and production are, the best […]

Oct, 21

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