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Friends *** (1971, Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Toby Robins, Ronald Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 4484

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1971 teen romance Friends about two love-struck youngsters escaping to a secluded hideaway home to have a baby is a tasteful and pleasant film if perhaps sometimes rather vapid and dreary. Sean Bury […]

Oct, 18

Bad Company **** (1972, Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser, Geoffrey Lewis, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 4160

The 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey in the 1972 Western film Bad Company. The young, just 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a particularly magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey, an […]

Aug, 12

Psych-Out *** (1968, Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Henry Jaglom) – Classic Movie Review 3868

‘These are the PLEASURE LOVERS! They’ll ask for a dime with hungry eyes… but they’ll give you love– for NOTHING!’ Or maybe this sells it better: ‘Hear Incense & Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock’. […]

Jun, 15

8MM [Eight Millimeter] *** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 3091

Director Joel Schumacher’s 1999 thriller stars Nicolas Cage as Tom Welles, a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Welles is called in by a rich old lady and her lawyer Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald) […]

Nov, 25

A Price Above Rubies ***½ (1998, Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianna Margulies) – Classic Movie Review 2015

In writer-director Boaz Yakin’s unusually intelligent, thought-provoking, complex 1998 drama, Renée Zellweger gives a commendably intense performance as Sonia Horowitz, a wife who feels increasingly isolated from her New York Jewish neighbourhood. She also feels […]

Dec, 30

Fathers’ Day ** (Robin Williams, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1571

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star together for the first time in director Ivan Reitman’s wobbly, forgettable 1997 comedy based on a French movie – Les Compères by Francis Veber – that is amusing and enjoyable […]

Aug, 20

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