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The Osterman Weekend *** (1983, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Craig T Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver) – Classic Movie Review 7244
Hopes were high with the idea of Sam Peckinpah filming a Robert Ludlum novel in 1983 – a great union of two masters of their craft seemed in the making. But Sam Peckinpah’s final film […]
Ishtar * (1987, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7218
Warren Beatty defends the 1987 mega-flop Ishtar as ‘a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it’s funny.’ Disaster struck writer-director Elaine May’s daft little 1987 comedy Ishtar […]
The Shooter [Hidden Assassin] ** (1995, Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, Gavan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 6214
Dolph Lundgren stars as the US federal agent Michael Dane, who is sent to locate and abduct Simone Rosset (Maruschka Detmers), the beautiful suspected assassin of the Cuban ambassador in New York before she strikes […]
The Man with One Red Shoe *** (1985, Tom Hanks, James Belushi, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann) – Classic Movie Review 6175
The Americans remake yet another French comedy (the 1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) to provide a fun role for Tom Hanks as Richard, a violinist who cycles to his engagements, taken […]
American Assassin ** (2017, Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch, David Suchet, Charlotte Vega) – Movie Review
Dylan O’Brien stars as troubled 23-year-old Mitch Rapp, who is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) as a counter-terrorism operative recruit. She gets tough Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton) to […]
Hopscotch *** (1980, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, George Baker) – Classic Movie Review 5396
Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, the hit star pairing from 1978’s House Calls, re-team to good but lesser effect in director Ronald Neame’s uneven but still sparky 1980 spy spoof. Based on the novel by […]
Scorpio **** (1972, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J D Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 5,061
The 1972 spy film Scorpio is a smoothly twisting Cold War spy game tale, starring Burt Lancaster as CIA agent Gerald Cross, who is suspected of double-dealing and is being hounded by the freelance […]