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Posts Tagged "Brian De Palma"
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Body Double *** (1984, Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry) – Classic Movie Review 2931
Co-writer/producer/director Brian De Palma’s 1984 soft-core Alfred Hitchcock-style crime mystery suspense thriller focuses on a resting actor called Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), just dumped from a grotty horror movie, who then comes home to find […]
Femme Fatale *** (2002, Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote) – Classic Movie Review 2926
After a $10million diamond heist from an exhibition during the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, femme fatale Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) double-crosses her crook partners. She goes on the run, assumes the identity of Lily, a woman who commits […]
The Black Dahlia **** (2006, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 2925
Director Brian De Palma’s superb neo noir movie of James Ellroy’s retro hard-boiled thriller novel The Black Dahlia is criminally neglected and underrated. Ellroy’s novel is inspired by the most notorious real-life unsolved murder in Californian […]
Obsession *** (1976, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 2188
For director Brian De Palma’s teasing and intriguing 1976 mystery thriller, writer Paul Schrader bases his screenplay on the movie buff’s story he concocted with De Palma. Schrader and De Palma no doubt intend an homage […]
Dressed to Kill **** (1980, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen) – Classic Movie Review 2189
Writer-director Brian De Palma’s all-stops-out 1980 thriller stars Angie Dickinson as Kate Miller, a sexually troubled housewife who goes to psychiatrist Doctor Robert Elliott (Michael Caine) for help as one of his patients. De Palma is once […]
Mission to Mars *** (2000, Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Jerry O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 1292
Take the best bits of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the worst parts of The Abyss. Add in pieces of Contact, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Apollo 13 and just a dash of […]
Mission: Impossible *** (1996, Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1289
Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]