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Slap Shot **** (1977, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean) – Classic Movie Review 1427
Director George Roy Hill’s funny, fast and furious 1977 ice hockey comedy drama stars Paul Newman, who is on top form as Reggie Dunlop, an ageing player-coach sports star who plays dirty to win. His struggling Charlestown […]
Drop Dead Gorgeous ***½ (1999, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams, Matt Malloy, Nora Dunn, Adam West) – Classic Movie Review 1316
Director Michael Patrick Jann’s 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious, bad-taste fake documentary (‘mockumentary’) about a Minnesota small town teen-pageant beauty contest, in which poor girl Kirsten Dunst fights it out with rich […]
Mr Deeds ** (2002, Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro) – Classic Film Review 1226
Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]
Mr Deeds Goes to Town ***** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, Walter Catlett, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1225
Director Frank Capra was on a roll in 1936, winning his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town, now regarded as an all-time Hollywood […]
Swann (1996, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Film Review 1200
Director Anna Benson Gyles‘s 1996 literary heart-warmer with intelligence and soul provides a lovely acting showcase for talented Miranda Richardson and Brenda Fricker. Richardson plays a hit author Sarah Maloney, who is asked to write the […]
The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1137
Director Robert Siodmak turns Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a gangster waiting passively for the two professional killers who are coming to get him into an extremely atmospheric, tense and stylish hard-nosed, hard-boiled film noir crime […]
State and Main (2000, William C Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Film Review 1122
Writer-director David Mamet’s known for his rather egg-heady plays and movies, but here in 2000 he tackles an easy-going, old-style satire of film-making, film folk and the movie business, which is far more entertaining than penetrating or […]