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A Perfect Day [Un Giorno Perfetto] * (2008, Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea) – Classic Movie Review 12,803

Ferzan Özpetek picks wildly unpromising material for his 2008 Italian drama film A Perfect Day [Un Giorno Perfetto] and comes up with a dark and depressing movie, in which a violent jealous bodyguard refuses to […]

Jan, 27

Raw Deal *** (1986, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Ed Lauter, Darren McGavin, Steven Hill) – Classic Movie Review 12,261

Director John Irvin’s 1986 thick-ear actioner film Raw Deal stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, alongside Kathryn Harrold, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Robert Davi, Ed Lauter, Darren McGavin, Steven Hill and Joe Regalbuto. Big Arnie’s all-action thriller may […]

Jul, 31

A Lovely Way to Die ** (1968, Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 10,144

Director David Lowell Rich’s 1968 mystery crime drama A Lovely Way To Die [A Lovely Way to Go] is an interestingly peculiar pot pourri of a film, in which wily district attorney Tennessee Fredericks (Eli […]

Aug, 07

Assassination ** (1987, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Stephen Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 8168

Director Peter Hunt’s 1987 Assassination [The President’s Wife] is a watchable but carelessly conceived and made and unoriginal political thriller and chase movie. Charles Bronson stars as a White House secret service presidential bodyguard Jay […]

Feb, 24

Doctor Rhythm *** (1938, Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 7388

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1938 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy musical Doctor Rhythm re-teams Bing Crosby and Mary Carlisle after College Humor (1933) and Double or Nothing (1937), and also stars Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine and Laura […]

Aug, 02

Guarding Tess *** (1994, Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 7253

The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]

Jul, 05

Bodyguard **** (1948, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Elizabeth Risdon) – Classic Movie Review 7122

Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]

Jun, 05

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