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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
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The Last Samurai **** (2003, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 379
With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]
Apocalypse Now ***** (1979, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Frederic Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 344
Apocalypse Now – and Forever! Co-writer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s incredibly ambitious, wildly extravagant ($31 million) epic brilliantly reworks Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as an examination of the absurdities and madness of the […]
Ravenous **** (1999, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer) – Classic Film Review 329
Director Antonia Bird’s uniquely disturbing 1999 movie with its crypto-vampire story is a brilliant, astonishing one-off. A black comedy horror thriller in a Western setting, it matches Robert Carlyle’s nasty human-meat-eater against Guy Pearce’s nice reformed […]
Captain Phillips **** (2013, Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener) – Movie Review
Tom Hanks finds a perfect part as the real-life Captain Richard Phillips, a canny and experienced American seaman, who is sent to command the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama, in 2009. He has to steer […]
From Here to Eternity ***** (1953, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 128
Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of James Jones’s best-selling novel about the appallingly harsh rigours of army life and deep sexual frustrations in 1941 Hawaii caused a worldwide sensation in 1953. It went on to win eight […]
The Thing From Another World ***** (1951, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 54
‘Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!’ This distinguished, influential and imaginatively staged 1951 vintage sci-fi horror thriller, remade by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell as The Thing in 1982, is still a […]
Star Trek Into Darkness **** (2013, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Alice Eve) – Movie Review
What’s not to like? It’s Star Trek!! With the world in its usual chaos, Chris Pine’s Kirk and Zachary Quinto’s Spock explore their properly heterosexual bromance, which culminates in each saving the other’s life against […]