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Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906

The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]

Dec, 15

A Piece of the Action ***(1977, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7904

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up to play con artists Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson in the meandering and schmaltzy, though endearing 1977 comedy drama A Piece of the Action. The two high-class sneak […]

Dec, 15

Studs Lonigan ** (1960, Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7850

Christopher Knight stars in the 1960 drama Studs Lonigan as the title’s character Studs Lonigan, an Irish immigrant who adapts to life on the streets of Chicago and in the beds of various women in […]

Nov, 28

Land of the Dead *** (2005, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper, Simon Baker, Robert Joy) – Classic Movie Review 7705

Writer-director George A Romero’s lustily and impressively done Land of the Dead is the 2005 sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). In […]

Oct, 26

Fresh ** (1994, Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 6363

The eponymous 12-year-old African American kid Fresh (Sean Nelson) is late for a very important date – in his New York classroom – because he has been held up in his heroin-running work for the […]

Dec, 06

Dragnet *** (1987, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 6177

Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]

Nov, 01

Disha [The Uprooted] *** (1990, Om Puri, Nana Patekar, Shabana Azmi, Raghuvir Yadav) – Classic Movie Review 4922

The once ubiquitous Om Puri, who died on 6 January 2017, aged 66, stars in writer-director Sai Paranjape’s involving, atmospheric and insightful 1990 Hindi drama about family life in a rural village setting, focusing on the […]

Jan, 22

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