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House of Games **** (1987, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4004
American Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet makes a clever directorial début with his teasing 1987 thriller House of Games. It stars his then wife Lindsay Crouse as control-freak psychiatrist Margaret Ford, who makes the mistake […]
Mississippi Grind *** (2015, Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller, Yvonne Landry, Alfre Woodard) – Movie Review
Ben Mendelsohn stars as 44-year old down-on-his-luck gambling addict Gerry desperately looking for the big win that will get him out of his financial and life mess. He’s a man who would stake his own […]
The Cincinnati Kid ***** (1965, Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, Tuesday Weld) – Classic Movie Review 2,227
Director Norman Jewison’s classic 1965 gambling suspense thriller film The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen and Edward G Robinson as poker game opponents in a gripping, haunting battle royale with a bunch of iconic Sixties […]
Maverick *** (1994, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1460
Mel Gibson stars as the reincarnation of TV’s famed 1957-62 card-playing gambler Bret Maverick in director Richard Donner’s breezy, likeable and entertaining 1994 comedy Western. Maverick needs an additional $3000 to enter a Winner Take All poker […]
Destry Rides Again ***** (1939, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel, Brian Donlevy, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 1238
George Marshall’s classic 1939 black and white movie Destry Rides Again will always be regarded as the definitive version of the famous Max Brand story. Yet ironically it bears no relation to Brand’s popular novel […]
Nobody’s Fool **** (1994, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 872
Writer-director Robert Benton’s small but perfectly formed 1994 film Nobody’s Fool landed Paul Newman with a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination for his sterling turn as Sully Sullivan, an ageing small-town construction worker who has a […]
The 40 Year-Old Virgin **** (2005, Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 530
Steve Carell raises a whole a lot of laughs as the title 40-year-old virgin whose wacky work buddies (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Romany Malco) help him to start up his love life and finally get […]