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Posse from Hell ** (1961, Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lampert) – Classic Movie Review 10,250)
Director Herbert Coleman’s 1961 Posse from Hell stars Audie Murphy, who rides in as a tough former gunfighter called Banner Cole, heading the search for a murderous band of four ex-cons, all convicted killers who […]
The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952
Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]
North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] *** (1980, Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8787
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1980 North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] stars Roger Moore, who leads the comic-book capers as Ffolkes, an oddball freelance frogman-commando with ice-cool nerve and style (he loves cats, ignores women and does […]
Entebbe [7 Days in Entebbe] * (2018, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Lior Ashkenazi) – Movie Review
Entebbe (aka 7 Days in Entebbe) recounts the story of Operation Entebbe, the Israeli commandos’ daring 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation in Uganda, after the terrorists hijack an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to […]
Adieu Poulet [The French Detective] *** (1975, Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux) – Classic Movie Review 7053
Lino Ventura stars as the crafty French detective, Chief Inspector Verjeat, who clashes with pushy politician Pierre Lardatte (Victor Lanoux), in this impressive 1975 dubbed French murder thriller The French Detective, based on the novel […]
Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]
Mad City *** (1997, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Bill Nunn, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 1559
In director Costa-Gavras’s 1997 thriller, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a disgruntled natural history museum security guard, who holds visitors, including a school trip group, hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he […]