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Platoon ***** (1986, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 2074

Writer-director Oliver Stone’s 1986 Oscar-winner for Best Picture and Best Director focuses on the trials and tribulations of American infantrymen in 60s Vietnam and boasts the solid, traditional movie-making virtues of an engrossing story, muscular performances and […]

Jan, 12

Born on the Fourth of July ***** (1989, Tom Cruise, Raymond J Barry, Caroline Kava) – Classic Movie Review 2063

Director Oliver Stone’s double Oscar-winning 1989 anti-war movie provides Tom Cruise with indisputably one of his best-ever roles as all-American boy Ron Kovic who was paralysed in the Vietnam War and returns to America to find […]

Jan, 09

Sliver *** (1993, Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger) – Classic Movie Review 2029

Sharon Stone relishes enjoying her top star billing and salary ($2.5million) for director Phillip Noyce sleek and sexy if desperately tacky 1993 thriller in which she’s new girl in the title New York apartment block, where […]

Jan, 01

Chasers ** (1994, Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 1737

Director Dennis Hopper’s 1994 comedy drama stars Tom Berenger and William McNamara as bickering US Navy lawmen, who escort a beautiful troublesome female prisoner (Erika Eleniak) to prison in Charleson. She plays to do anything to […]

Oct, 03

The Gingerbread Man *** (1998, Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 422

Robert Altman’s neglected 1998 movie is an awkward but by no means negligible noirish thriller, based on a John Grisham original screen story. Kenneth Branagh gives an exceptional performance as a very flawed, unsympathetic hero, […]

Nov, 18

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