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A Run for Your Money *** (1949, Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness) – Classic Movie Review 6305

Co-writer/ director Charles Frend’s modest but amiable 1949 British comedy stars Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as Welsh coal-mining brothers David ‘Dai Number 9’ Jones and Thomas ‘Twm’ Jones. The duo come to London to support […]

Nov, 24

Cargo *** (2017, Sebastien Dewaele, Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert, Josse De Pauw, Wennie De Ruyck, Gilles De Schryver) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Gilles Coulier’s drama is incredibly dark, dour, raw and bleak, but a true humanity and a deeply hidden central core of warmth are to be found here. If there is a laugh anywhere, it […]

Sep, 22

Night Passage *** (1957, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Brandon de Wilde, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5920

‘The Saga of the Brothers and the savagery of their blood feud!’ Director James Neilson’s 1957 Western Night Passage is robust, and occasionally invigorating, though in some respects obstinately ordinary. But it is strongly cast, […]

Aug, 15

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest * (1995, Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler, Nancy Lee Grahn, Mari Morrow) Classic Movie Review 5852

The evil spreads. Two surviving Gatlin, Nebraska, small-town brothers Eli and Joshua are adopted by a Chicago city couple, William and Amanda Porter, in director James D R Hickox’s gory and pretty silly 1995 second horror sequel […]

Aug, 04

Tread Softly Stranger *** (1958, George Baker, Terence Morgan, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 5635

Fasten your seat belts for Diana Dors as the irresistibly sexy temptress Calico in the 1958 British crime thriller film Tread Softly Stranger.  Director Gordon Parry’s underrated realist 1958 British thriller Tread Softly Stranger stars George […]

Jun, 19

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

Hell’s Angels **** (1930, Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow) – Classic Movie Review 3863

Ben Lyon stars as cowardly Monte Rutledge with James Hall as his heroic brother Roy Rutledge, who are both studying at Oxford University as the film begins. The two dissimilar brothers promptly leave to sign […]

Jun, 15

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