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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance **** (1962, James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles) – Classic Movie Review 2347

‘Together for the first time – James Stewart and John Wayne – in the masterpiece of four-time Academy Award winner John Ford.’ Well that’s the advertising. The reality is that, though director John Ford’s 1962 Western […]

Apr, 03

Timecop ***½ (1994, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver) – Classic Movie Review 2086

Director Peter Hyams’s exciting 1994 sci-fi action thriller is one of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best movies, made and performed with lots of gusto. And it is written by Mark Verheiden and Mike Richardson (based on […]

Jan, 18

Bulworth ** (1998, Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna, Sean Astin) – Classic Movie Review 2014

Warren Beatty tries very hard, both as producer-writer-director and star, but seems to have lost his touch in this offbeat 1998 satirical comedy drama. He plays, quite well, suicidally disillusioned liberal senator Jay Bulworth, who […]

Dec, 29

G I Jane *** (1997, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1361

Director Ridley Scott’s 1997 movie stars Demi Moore in one of her key roles. Moore shaves her head and pumps up the muscles for her showy performance as a US intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil. […]

Jun, 28

Pompeii (2014, Kit Harington, Kiefer Sutherland) – Movie Review

And 2014 brings Paul W.S. Anderson’s movie Pompeii. It opened in America on 24 February 2014 to poor reviews and did poor business, costing $100million and taking only $23million in America. Its UK opening was on […]

Apr, 30

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

The American President ***½ (1995, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J Fox, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 945

Producer-director Rob Reiner’s 1995 romantic comedy drama stars Michael Douglas as widowed US President Andrew Shepherd, who seizes his chance for love and goes after political lobbyist journalist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening). This amusing, […]

Mar, 19

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