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The Karate Kid Part II *** (1986, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Pat E Johnson, Martin L Kove) – Classic Movie Review 9,721
The 1986 martial arts action adventure film The Karate Kid Part II offers more of the same as the 1984 original, and again stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who accompanies his karate teacher Mr […]
The Karate Kid Part III ** (1989, Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9720
They pushed their luck making a third one when the material was already starting to wear thin in The Karate Kid Part II and the ‘Kid’ Ralph Macchio was nearly 30 (though he does look […]
Berlin Alexanderplatz ***** (1980, Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa) – Classic Movie Review 6205
Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder remakes Phil Jutzi’s German classic movie of 1931 and comes up with a towering monument of film-making in an inspired attempt to capture the entire essence of Alfred Döblin’s novel in […]
Bleed for This *** (2016, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Katey Sagal, Ted Levine) – Movie Review
Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]
The Set-Up ***** (1949, Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 2,388
Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up stars Robert Ryan in a knockout performance as a has-been fighter who won’t take a dive. Director Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up […]
The Rainmaker **** (1997, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 382
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller makes its case to win the award for the best film adaptation of a John Grisham legal mystery novel. It’s as tense, atmospheric, characterful and intriguing as they come. […]
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