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Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to Kill] *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 10,628

FBI agent Warren Stantin (Sidney Poitier) and mountain guide and expert tracker Jonathan Knox (Tom Berenger) team up to track an evil killer in Roger Spottiswoode’s tough, well-made 1988 action thriller Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to […]

Dec, 04

In the Deep Woods ** (1992, Rosanna Arquette, Anthony Perkins, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 9737

Director Charles Correll’s 1992 TV movie In the Deep Woods is an eerie if rather unimaginative and tatty psycho-thriller, with a screenplay by Robert Nathan and Robert Rosenblum based on Nicholas Conde’s novel. It has […]

May, 09

The Red House **** (1947, Edward G Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London, Rory Calhoun) – Classic Movie Review 8247

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 black and white psychological thriller The Red House (also known as No Trespassing) is based on a novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library, and stars Edward G […]

Mar, 15

Quintet * (1979, Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 7533

In the same year as he did the successful romantic comedy A Perfect Couple, director Robert Altman made this disastrous sci-fi mystery muddle Quintet (1979), set during a distant future inhospitable ice age, with Paul […]

Sep, 03

Leave No Trace **** (2018, Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Debra Granik’s haunting 2018 outsider survivalist drama Leave No Trace is totally compelling and absolutely first rate. Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie star as troubled dad Will and his surprisingly grown-up 13-year-old daughter Tom, […]

Jun, 03

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [Evil Dead II] *** (1987, Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks) – Classic Movie Review 5030

For his bigger-budget ( $3,600,000) horror sequel to the 1981 cult favourite video nasty original The Evil Dead, co-writer/ director Raimi gives his horror fans exactly what they want – another exuberant dose of blood, […]

Feb, 19

Tuck Everlasting ***½ (2002, Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Victor Garber) – Classic Movie Review 4731

In the woods, young Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) meets a young man, Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson), who is part of a family of immortals, who take her in for fear that she might reveal their […]

Dec, 02

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