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Mr Deeds ** (2002, Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro) – Classic Film Review 1226

Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]

May, 17

Mr Deeds Goes to Town ***** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, Walter Catlett, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1225

Director Frank Capra was on a roll in 1936, winning his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town, now regarded as an all-time Hollywood […]

May, 17

The Parallax View ***** (1974, Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Walter McGinn, Anthony Zerbe, Kenneth Mars) – Classic Movie Review 1152

Alan J Pakula’s 1974 political paranoia conspiracy thriller film is brilliantly tense, taut and exciting. It’s a scorching nail-biter of a movie. Warren Beatty stars as ambitious reporter Joseph Frady, who investigates a presidential candidate’s […]

Apr, 27

Deep Impact *** (1998, Elijah Wood, Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 1104

Director Mimi Leder’s feisty, old-style apocalyptic 1998 disaster movie stars Elijah Wood as a keen young amateur astrologer who spots an unidentified star, and soon it is all stations red alert as a massive comet […]

Apr, 17

The Return of Frank James **** (1940, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper) – Classic Film Review 1064

Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]

Apr, 06

The China Syndrome ***** (1979, Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 900

Jack Lemmon stars as Jack Godell, a nuclear power plant controller who finds a dangerous fault in the plant that the authorities will do anything to keep from the media, in co-writer/director James Bridges’s riveting […]

Mar, 11

All the President’s Men ***** (1976, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 899

Director Alan J Pakula’s 1976 four-Oscar-winning classic real-life thriller stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in two of their finest and most famous performances as The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. It […]

Mar, 11

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