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The Devil Thumbs a Ride *** (1947, Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 11,058

‘NOT EVEN HER KISSES COULD HALT HIS FURY… when his evil brain cried KILL!’ Director Felix E Feist’s 1947 RKO Radio Pictures black and white film noir The Devil Thumbs a Ride stars Lawrence Tierney […]

Mar, 30

The Vanishing **** (1988, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege) – Classic Movie Review 8991

Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]

Oct, 17

Il Grido [The Cry] [The Outcry] **** (1957, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Betsy Blair, Lynn Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6280

This downbeat and ambling 1957 Italian personal drama and study in alienation is impressively filmed along Neo-Realist lines by master director Michelangelo Antonioni, who was soon about to make his international name with L’Avventura (1960), […]

Nov, 21

Two-Lane Blacktop **** (1971, James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6209

‘You can never go fast enough…’ Director Monte Hellman views his 1971 film masterwork Two-Lane Blacktop about a cross-country chase between two custom cars as a metaphorical odyssey into the heart of America. It is […]

Nov, 08

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III * (1990, Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff, William Butler, Viggo Mortensen) – Classic Movie Review 5987

Three people – a California couple and a survivalist – confront the family of lethally crazy cannibals from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – Leatherface and his family. Little fresh […]

Aug, 28

The Mechanic ** (2011, Jason Statham, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Foster) – Classic Movie Review 4607

Jason Statham delivers the action alright but fails to impress in the acting department, stepping into Charles Bronson’s worn-out old shoes in director Simon West’s all-too-moderate 2011 remake of the 1972 Michael Winner thriller The Mechanic. […]

Nov, 07

The Survivors ** (1983, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed) – Movie Review 4170

The young, frenzied ball of fire comic Robin Williams (just 32) works well in his manic performance with the contrasting laid-back style of the laconic Walter Matthau in director Michael Ritchie’s haphazard, far-out 1983 darkly […]

Aug, 14

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