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The Beguiled **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2577

Producer-director Don Siegel’s 1971 cult Civil War Western chiller is a rich and strange, and often quite beautiful movie. It was Siegel’s favourite of his films. It reunites him with Clint Eastwood, who stars as […]

Jun, 09

Survivor ** (2015, Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Frances de la Tour, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Roger Rees) – Movie Review

Milla Jovovich stars as a kickass US State Department employee whose job on her new posted to the American embassy in London is stopping terrorists from getting into the US. With her brilliant instincts, she smells […]

Jun, 03

An American Werewolf in London ***** (1981, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne) – Classic Movie Review 2518

Writer-director John Landis dazzlingly mixes full-out humour with full-on horror for this brilliant Oscar-winning 1981 classic tale of two naive young American college student tourists (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) back-pack hiking in northern England […]

May, 25

Mad Max **** (1979, Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley) – Classic Movie Review 2468

Director George Miller’s smart 1979 cult favourite Australian sci-fi action thriller Mad Max stars the magnetic young Mel Gibson, who heads for superstardom in this low-budget gang orientated road movie, set in a post-World War […]

May, 10

El Mariachi **** (1992, Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos) – Classic Movie Review 2399

Writer-producer-editor-director-cinematographer Robert Rodriguez’s extremely exciting and dynamic, tongue-in-cheek 1992 action thriller Western is set in a Mexican border town. An ultra-low-budget hit, it turned out to be the first of Rodriguez’s El Mariachi trilogy. It was […]

Apr, 17

What Richard Did ***½ (2012, Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton, Gavin Drea, Patrick Gibson, Liana O’Cleirigh, Róisín Murphy) – Movie Review

Jack Reynor stars in his breakout performance as Richard Karlsen, head of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, in director Lenny (Leonard) Abrahamson’s quietly devastating 2012 Irish drama. In the summer between the end […]

Apr, 13

Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] **** (1952, Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée) – Classic Movie Review 2356

Director René Clément’s heart-tugging war drama is the (honorary) 1953 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. Jeux interdits [Forbidden Games] focuses on the terrible fallout effects […]

Apr, 04

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