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The Carey Treatment *** (1972, James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Dan O’Herlihy, Elizabeth Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7117
Oh doctor, I’m in trouble… Blake Edwards’s 1972 crime thriller The Carey Treatment got the MGM studio treatment. It was heavily cut and re-edited in post production, infuriating the director, who sued. Director Blake Edwards’s […]
Black Jack *** (1979, Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval) – Classic Movie Review 6986
Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]
Thoroughbreds * (2017, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin) – Movie Review
Writer-director Cory Finley’s 2017 directorial debut Thoroughbreds, a twisted dark comedy thriller, is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, as are his two main characters, Amanda and Lily, posh, idle rich Connecticut teenagers, who dangerously revive their […]
Subway **** (1985, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade) – Classic Movie Review 6.887
Co-writer/ director Luc Besson’s impossibly stylish 1985 Paris Métro French thriller film Subway is above all great fun. Christopher Lambert won a César Award as Best Actor. The one-time Tarzan goes punk as Christopher Lambert (from […]
A Woman’s Face **** (1941, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt) – Classic Movie Review 6080
Director George Cukor’s 1941 film noir-style thriller drama A Woman’s Face provides a quintessential vehicle for Joan Crawford as Anna Holm, a blackmailer who cannot get over the psychological damage of her face scarred in […]
Fist Fight **½ (2017, Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris) – Movie Review
It’s the last day of high school, and Charlie Day stars as an easy-going, good-natured school teacher who, to save his own job, gets another (angry and erratic) teacher (Ice Cube) fired after he chops […]
War on Everyone *** (2016, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Caleb Landry Jones, Paul Reiser) – Movie Review
London writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s welcome and tastily edgy but slightly off-kilter and struggling 2016 black comedy thriller re-tells the very familiar tale of two corrupt cops in New Mexico who enjoy blackmailing and […]