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Posts Tagged "Stephen King"

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Dreamcatcher **** (2003, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 919

Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]

Mar, 16

Dolores Claiborne **** (1995, Kathy Bates, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, David Strathairn, Eric Bogosian, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 886

Director Taylor Hackford employs the admirable Kathy Bates for another ace Stephen King adaptation, after her Oscar-winning performance in Misery (1990). Bates kicks this 1995 movie into top gear as Dolores Claiborne, a Maine matron […]

Mar, 09

Apt Pupil **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 717

The 16-year-old Brad Renfro stars as teenager Todd Bowden, who suspects his neighbour Arthur Denker (played by Ian McKellen) of being a Nazi war criminal called Kurt Dussander. The lad starts a blackmail campaign against […]

Jan, 18

Carrie ** (2013, Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Ansel Elgort, Gabriella Wilde) – Movie Review

At sweet 16, Chloë Grace Moretz is attractive, confident and tough, a charismatic little spitfire. Carrie White, the character she’s playing in this new take on Brian De Palma’s classic Carrie is plain, shy, tormented […]

Nov, 28

Stand by Me ***** (1986, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 396

River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell star in the 1986 film Stand by Me as Fifties small-town kids who trek to the Oregon wilds to look for the missing body of a […]

Nov, 11

Carrie ***** (1976, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 302

Brian De Palma’s brilliant original 1976 horror thriller film Carrie includes an excellent role as Carrie’s puritanical mother for the perennially undervalued Piper Laurie, who was Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actress ‘If you’ve got […]

Oct, 19

The Green Mile ***** (1999, Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 277

Tom Hanks is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard supervising prisoners on Death Row at the Deep South Coal Mountain Correctional Facility in the 1930s. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle […]

Oct, 07

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