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Far and Away *** (1992, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 3333
Director Ron Howard’s stirring 1992 epic period adventure Far and Away is remembered for pairing the then real-life husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a poor Irish farm labourer called Joseph Donnelly […]
In the Heart of the Sea ** (2015, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland, Benjamin Walker) – Movie Review
‘The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.’ Ben Whishaw plays the author Herman Melville, who in the 1850s turns up at the home of Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), who […]
Cocoon **** (1985, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon) – Classic Movie Review 3065
Don Ameche won the 1986 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as one of the Florida golden boys and girls who are rejuvenated thanks to the magical presence of some pretty pods in the swimming pool they […]
Ransom ***½ (1996, Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Liev Schreiber, Lili Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2,999
Mel Gibson is a satisfyingly edgy in director Ron Howard’s tense, robust, well-made 1996 thriller film remake Ransom, with some solid bursts of action. Making a good job of a rather grim part, a satisfyingly […]
The Shootist ***** (1976, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 2578
Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]
Willow **** (1988, Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 1614
Director Ron Howard’s lusty 1988 fantasy spectacular Willow is lovingly made, full of Industrial Light and Magic special effects and a deliciously rousing experience to watch. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Visual Effects and […]
EDtv *** (1999, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Ellen Degeneres, Martin Landau, Jenna Elfman, Sally Kirkland, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1197
Would you like to be filmed waking up in bed on live TV? That’s exactly what happens to Matthew McConaughey as the dazed and confused Ed, an unambitious video store clerk who is plucked from […]