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I Heart Huckabees *** (2004, Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Wahlberg) – Classic Movie Review 1661

Jason Schwartzman stars as Albert Markovski, an isolated conservationist, activist and poet who hires husband-and-wife team of existential detectives Bernard and Vivian (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to get him back on the rails in […]

Sep, 11

The Stepford Wives **** (1974, Katharine Ross, Patrick O’Neal, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman) – Classic Movie Review 1383

Adapted for the screen by expert William Goldman, Ira Levin’s chilling thriller novel emerges smoothed out and tamed down in British director Bryan Forbes’s 1974 film. But it’s still an excellent, richly satisfying movie full of […]

Jul, 01

The Desperate Hours **** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March) – Classic Movie Review 1349

Director William Wyler’s 1955 thriller tells the archetypal tale of a gang of ruthless convicts on the run who commandeer a middle-class family’s house and terrorise the whole household. But, the obvious old question is, […]

Jun, 21

Mr and Mrs Smith **** (2005, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody) – Classic Movie Review 711

This largely unrelated film with the same title as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 screwball comedy was a 2005 blockbuster, in which a husband and wife who are both secret agents, are hired by competing agencies to kill each other. […]

Jan, 18

The Virgin Suicides **** (Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner) – Classic Movie Review 664

Virgins – the five Lisbon family sisters (Kirsten Dunst, A J Cook, Hannah Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain) – make a suicide pact in 70s affluent suburban America. A group of young male friends living […]

Jan, 10

Surviving Christmas ** (2004, Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Christina Applegate) – Classic Movie Review 4681

Ben Affleck stars as rich but lonely and obnoxious young Chicago ad executive Drew Latham, who hires a family to spend the holidays with. They are the wacky Valco family, Tom, Alicia, Christine and Brian (played […]

Dec, 19

The Purge **** (2013, Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder) – Movie Review

It’s the near future, 2022 actually, violence and unemployment are eradicated, and everybody’s happy, except that on one night of the year, The Purge takes place. For 12 hours everyone has a free pass – […]

May, 29

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