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The Count of Monte Cristo **** (2002, Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, James Frain, Luis Guzmán, Michael Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 3002

The classic Alexandre Dumas Père adventure yarn is given a thoroughly exciting, glossy, modern work-over in 2002 by director Kevin Reynolds, the maker of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waterworld. For the sake of […]

Oct, 21

The Proposition **** (2005, Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2398

This chillingly tough and highly distinguished 2005 Australian Western is directed by John Hillcoat and written by screenwriter and musician Nick Cave. It stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, John Hurt, Danny Huston, Noah […]

Apr, 17

The Rover ***½ (2014, Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy) – Movie Review

At 47, a scarily ravaged-looking Guy Pearce stars as Eric, a hardened, cold-blooded drifter loner who relentlessly pursues the men who stole his car, which he cares for passionately as his last remaining possession, across the […]

Aug, 14

Rules of Engagement *** (2000, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Blair Underwood, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 957

Director William Friedkin’s sharply handled, well-acted, sometimes exciting 2000 movie is an intriguing, intelligent and provocative mix of action movie, courtroom drama, ethical discussion and morality tale. An embittered Vietnam veteran-turned-small-time-lawyer, Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy […]

Mar, 22

The Time Machine *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones) – Classic Movie Review 662

Guy Pearce stars as haunted-looking Victorian scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen who, after his wife is killed, travels in his machine through time in search of her. Remaking the much-loved 1960 version by George Pal, The […]

Jan, 10

The Hurt Locker ***** (2008, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 549

Director Kathryn (Point Break) Bigelow’s sensationally sizzling 2008 battlefield movie follows the story of an elite US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Bigelow became the first woman to win an […]

Dec, 19

Ravenous **** (1999, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer) – Classic Film Review 329

Director Antonia Bird’s uniquely disturbing 1999 movie with its crypto-vampire story is a brilliant, astonishing one-off. A black comedy horror thriller in a Western setting, it matches Robert Carlyle’s nasty human-meat-eater against Guy Pearce’s nice reformed […]

Oct, 27

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