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Little Nicky * (2000, Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 1976

Director Stephen Brill’s 2000 silly comedy tries hard to raise laughs but it is mostly almost painfully unfunny. Adam Sandler stars as Nicky, the geeky, mild-mannered son of The Devil (Harvey Keitel), sent from Hell to New […]

Dec, 19

Vanity Fair *** (2004, Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Romola Garai) – Classic Movie Review 1751

Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]

Oct, 07

Devil’s Knot *** (2013, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon) – Film Review

Director Atom Egoyan delivers an honest, conscientious and compelling film dramatization of the real-life savage murders of three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore – in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the subsequent […]

Jun, 12

The Importance of Being Earnest ***** (2002, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Reese Witherspoon, Frances O’Connor, Anna Massey, Tom Wilkinson, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 1162

Writer-director Oliver Parker’s 2002 film follows up his 1999 success with another Oscar Wilde adaptation, An Ideal Husband. Parker’s film of The Importance of Being Earnest is a marvellous, hilarious, sumptuous and above all fresh […]

May, 01

Sweet Home Alabama *** (2002, Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey) – Classic Movie Review 768

Director Andy Tennant’s 2002 romcom stars Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Smooter, a pert and cute hick from the sticks who makes it big in the Big Apple fashion biz, and is soon talked into marriage […]

Jan, 29

Walk the Line **** (2005, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 712

Following the trail blazed by Ray (2004), director James Mangold’s entertaining, informative and involving 2005 biopic of troubled country music legend Johnny Cash boasts an ace impersonation and a great performance by Oscar-nominated Best Actor […]

Jan, 18

Legally Blonde **** (2001, Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge, Holland Taylor, Ali Larter, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 699

Director Robert Luketic’s 2001 comedy was a huge smash hit and triumph for its star, Reese Witherspoon, who eagerly devours a gift of a part in this hilarious mix of Clueless and Working Girl that […]

Jan, 17

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