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South Sea Sinner [East of Java] ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Luther Adler, Helena Carter, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 11,894
Director H Bruce Humberstone’s irresistibly titled 1950 Universal Pictures black and white romantic adventure film noir drama South Sea Sinner [East of Java] stars Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, Luther Adler, Helena Carter and Frank Lovejoy. […]
A Perfect World *** (1993, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T J Lowther) – Classic Movie Review 9260
Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World (1993) is well made and decently paced as a crime thriller entertainment, though it is not as exciting or evocative as the similar Hunted (1952), Badlands, The Sugarland Express […]
Payback **** (1999, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke) – Classic Movie Review 8398
Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller Payback stars Mel Gibson as tough ex-marine Porter, a hood who is double-crossed and shot in the back by his unfaithful junkie wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and […]
Danger: Diabolik **** (1967, John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 3,528
Mario Bava’s bravura 1967 live-action comic film Danger: Diabolik stars the engaging John Phillip Law as black-clad master thief Diabolik, and rattles along from one hairy adventure to the next. It is a triumph of […]
Deadpool *** (2016, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, T J Miller, Ed Skrein) – Movie Review
Based on Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-superhero, this exceptionally grown-up and tough toned Marvel movie tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, played by a totally up-for-it Ryan Reynolds. He is […]
The Breakfast Club **** (1985, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1786
Writer-director John Hughes’s fondly remembered 1985 movie is perhaps the key film of the Eighties phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, inspiring the movement and making the director’s reputation. It followed Sixteen Candles (1984), his first […]
Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479
In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]