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Rogues’ Regiment ** (1948, Dick Powell, Marta Toren, Vincent Price, Stephen McNally) – Classic Movie Review 11,419

Director Robert Florey’s 1948 Universal Pictures film noir action thriller Rogues’ Regiment stars Dick Powell, Marta Toren, Vincent Price and Stephen McNally, and was the first American film set in the First Indo-China War. Powell […]

Jul, 23

That Lucky Touch ** (1975, Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Raf Vallone, Sydne Rome, Donald Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 8566

Director Christopher Miles’s modestly engaging, lightweight 1975 romantic comedy That Lucky Touch stars Roger Moore as European arms dealer Michael Scott, who is courted by liberated lefty journalist Julia Richardson (Susannah York), who wants a […]

Jun, 08

The Comedians **** (1967, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson) – Classic Movie Review 5,387

The Comedians (1967) is a distinguished and exciting film of Graham Greene’s great novel set in despotic Papa Doc Duvalier’s turbulent and violent Haiti. It’s an important serious piece of work for the Richard Burton-Elizabeth […]

May, 03

Lord of War **** (2005, Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 4330

Nicolas Cage greedily bites off a meaty role as Yuri Orlov, the world’s richest arms dealer, who marries his dream girl Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan) and enlists his brother Vitaly Orlov (Jared Leto) into his evil trade. […]

Sep, 10

Mission: Impossible III *** (2006, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 2739

Co-writer J J Abrams makes his first film as a director in the 2006 third instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, in which Tom Cruise’s agent Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the […]

Jul, 24

Hackney’s Finest ** (2014, Nathanael Wiseman, Arin Alldridge, Enoch Frost, Marlon G Day) – Movie Review

Director Chris Bouchard’s typical Guy Ritchie-style London lowlife thriller stars Nathanael Wiseman as small-time drug-dealer Sirus. He lands himself in big trouble when he gets caught up in the plan of bent East London cop Priestly (Arin […]

Apr, 06

The Expendables 3 ** (2014, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas) – Movie Review

Sylvester Stallone is back as Barney Ross in the 2014 action film sequel The Expendables 3, also starring Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, and […]

Aug, 07

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