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Goin’ South **** (1978, Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 937
Jack Nicholson directs an enjoyable, rollicking romantic comedy Western, with a delightfully quirky screenplay based on the story by John Herman Shaner and Al Ramrus. It’s the middle one of only three films Nicholson has directed, […]
Copland [Cop Land] **** (1997, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro) – Classic Movie Review 910
Writer-director James Mangold’s 1997 thinking-person’s thriller finds Sylvester Stallone giving his best display of acting for years as Sheriff Freddy Heflin, a tubby, hard-of-hearing New Jersey cop who uncovers a deadly web of police corruption […]
Walking Tall *** (2004, Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Neal McDonough) – Classic Movie Review 903
Director Kevin Bray’s 2004 remake of the 1973 thriller Walking Tall sees The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) walking tall in Joe Don Baker’s old role as a Vietnam vet who returns to his old rural […]
Affliction **** (1997, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 825
Ah, again, the sins of the father! Nick Nolte gives a great barnstorming performance as Wade Whitehouse, a haunted middle-aged New Hampshire small-town sheriff. He is a heavy drinker who has achieved little or nothing in […]
Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691
With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]
Way Out West ***** (1937, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 433
Directed by James Horne, Laurel and Hardy’s 1937 peerless spoof Western is a blissful 65 minutes of vintage comedy cinema. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy get to sing their hit song On the Trail of the […]
The Trouble with Harry ***** (1955, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 427
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 brilliant, sophisticated black comedy thriller shines like a little diamond. It is set in a gorgeously rich-looking rural autumnal Vermont, where three are three gunshots and Arnie Rogers (Jerry Mathers, aged eight), a […]