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Midnight in St Petersberg *** (1996, Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Sarrazin, Michelle Burke, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 9839

Michael Caine returns for the fifth and final time as one-time British secret agent Harry Palmer, in the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Midnight in St Petersburg, the sequel to Bullet to Beijing, released the year before, […]

May, 29

Eastern Promises **** (2007, Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 6105

Director David Cronenberg’s outstanding, nerve-shredding 2007 British-Canadian-American gangster movie crime thriller starts off running with a great screenplay written by Steven Knight. Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl star in the story of Anna Khitrova (Watts), a […]

Oct, 18

Rancid Aluminium * (2000, Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald, Steven Berkoff, Sadie Frost, Keith Allen, Dani Behr, Nick Moran, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5098

Ryhs Ifans stars as Pete Thompson, whose father dies and he expects to inherit the family business. But then his crooked accountant Sean Deeny (Joseph Fiennes) plots to sell it off to a Russian mob, […]

Mar, 04

Our Kind of Traitor ***½ (2016, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam) – Movie Review

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a weary long-term British couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who go on a rekindling romance-type holiday in Marrakech and meet dodgy Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima asks Perry to party with him and challenges him to […]

May, 13

The Saint * (1997, Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Alun Armstrong) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 3229

‘Never reveal your name. Never turn your back. Never surrender your heart.’ Val Kilmer is totally miscast as Simon Templar in director Phillip Noyce‘s misbegotten 1997 cinema attempt to revive The Saint. It co-stars Elisabeth […]

Jan, 04

Training Day ***½ (2001, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Harris Yulin, Cliff Curtis, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes) – Classic Film Review 970

Director Antoine Fuqua’s tough, well-made but depressing 2001 LA police thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, who land a couple of really showy roles as good cop, bad cop. They are rookie Jake Hoyt and seasoned Detective […]

Mar, 23

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