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Speed ***** (1994, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton) – Classic Movie Review 969

Director Jan de Bont’s incredibly fast-moving, nail-bitingly exciting 1994 action thriller turned into an instant classic and provided Keanu Reeves with his breakthrough blockbuster hit as young LAPD officer Jack Traven. It’s his job to save the […]

Mar, 23

Spy Game **** (2001, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 693

The most heroic golden boys of their generations, Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, obviously enjoyed working together when they first teamed when Redford starred Pitt in his 1992 fly-fishing movie, A River Runs Through It. […]

Jan, 17

Bringing Out the Dead **** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 701

Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]

Jan, 15

Airport ’77 ** (1977, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 673

Director Jerry Jameson’s 1977 third Airport movie is a lumbering disaster movie epic that is completely preposterous and often unintentionally funny. But it is still fairly exciting and somewhat enjoyable. It sends a luxury 747 airliner […]

Jan, 11

Spy Kids **** (2001, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming Tony Shalhoub, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick Danny Trejo) – Classic Movie Review 633

After their spy parents (Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino) have been kidnapped by a megalomaniac, a pair of plucky young sibling spies (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) set out to save them — and the world […]

Jan, 05

Number Seventeen **** (1932, John Stuart, Anne Grey, Leon M Lion) – Classic Movie Review 573

John Stuart stars as police detective Gilbert Fordyce, who is searching for a necklace and is on the trail of a gang of clever jewel thieves who stole it, in Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage 1932 British […]

Dec, 24

The Searchers ***** (1956, John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 349

With a fine screenplay by Frank S Nugent based on the factually based novel by Alan Le May, this 1956 all-time great John Ford movie The Searchers is simply one of the best Westerns ever. […]

Nov, 02

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