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Mean Streets ***** (1973, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Richard Romanus) – Classic Movie Review 2473

Mean Streets is renowned as the independently made movie that announced Martin Scorsese’s arrival as a world-class film director in 1973. The first film collaboration between Scorsese and star Robert De Niro, it is a key Seventies […]

May, 11

Phantom Lady ****½ (1944, Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Aurora Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 2257

Director Robert Siodmak’s 1944 movie is a thrilling mystery drama from the ace crime writer Cornell Woolrich. Alan Curtis plays Scott Henderson, an unhappily married man convicted of murdering his selfish wife when he’s been enjoying a one-night […]

Mar, 12

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

Crossfire **** (1947, Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, William Phipps) – Classic Movie Review 2171

Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]

Feb, 12

Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10

The Drop **** (2014, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini) – Movie Review

Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are both excellent in the well shot, tense and atmospheric 2014 character-driven thriller The Drop. Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are both excellent in a well shot, tense and atmospheric […]

Nov, 13

Earth to Echo *** (2014, Teo Halm, Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley, Reese Hartwig) – Movie Review

In director Dave Green’s 2014 ET clone children’s movie, a group of 13-year-old suburban American kids embark on an adventure with a cute stranded alien who needs their help that’s relayed to them a series of bizarre encrypted messages. […]

Jul, 23

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