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The Don Is Dead ** (1973, Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi) – Classic Movie Review 8590

‘In the Fall of 1971, Don Angelo DiMorra began an innocent affair with a beautiful woman. It started the bloodiest carnival of murder in the history of American crime.’ Frederic Forrest and Al Lettieri star […]

Jun, 14

State of Grace *** (1990, Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman) – Classic Movie Review 7667

Powerhouse acting from Sean Penn, Gary Oldman and especially Ed Harris distinguishes director Phil Joanou’s 1990 State of Grace, a saga of Irish gangsters in New York facing a barrel-load of trouble from the Mafia, […]

Oct, 14

Sonatine ***** (1993, Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe) – Classic Movie Review 6528

In his masterwork so far, Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano plays Aniki Murakawa, a world-weary Tokyo mobster whose boss orders him to Okinawa to resolve a dispute with a rival Yakuza gang. This is a masterly, […]

Jan, 06

Teenage Doll * (1957, June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley) – Classic Movie Review 4956

‘This story is about a sickness, a spreading epidemic that threatens to destroy our very way of life. We are not doctors. We can offer no cure. But we know that a cure must be […]

Jan, 28

Tokyo Tribe **** (2014, Ryôhei Suzuki, Riki Takeuchi, Young Dais, Ryûta Satô) – Movie Review

With a pounding soundtrack of rhyming Japanese rap (the English sub-title translations rhyme as well!), writer-director Shion Sono’s musical fight movie, based on Santa Inoue’s magna series is sensational. It’s as full-on as its is completely crazy. […]

May, 22

The Public Enemy ***** (1931, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 1590

Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]

Aug, 25

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