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Thursday *** (1998, Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paulina Porizkova, Paula Marshall, Mickey Rourke, James Le Gros) – Classic Movie Review 10,924

Writer-director Skip Woods’s 1998 action comedy crime film Thursday is a nasty, dark but exciting Tarantino-style crime thriller. Thomas Jane stars as Casey Wells, a reformed LA drug dealer, who has started a new life as […]

Feb, 16

Super Fly [Superfly] *** (1972, Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier) – Classic Movie Review 9989

Director Gordon Parks Jr’s successful though controversial 1972 action crime thriller Super Fly [Superfly] is a hit from the wave of 1970s blaxploitation movies, with Ron O’Neal working hard as Youngblood Priest/ Super Fly, a […]

Jul, 02

Stakeout on Dope Street *** (1958, Yale Wexler, Jonathan Haze, Steven Marlo, Abby Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 8369

The 1958 crime drama Stakeout on Dope Street is an interesting, still relevant fable for the late-Fifties times from the Roger Corman pool of Fifties youthful talent. Indeed the film was financed by the ever-canny […]

Apr, 16

Ben Is Back *** (2018, Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B Vance, Kathryn Newton) – Movie Review

Lucas Hedges stars in Ben Is Back (2018) as the nice, charming yet troubled Ben Burns, an apparently cleaned-up, recovering drug addicted teenage boy who shows up unexpectedly at his family’s home on Christmas Eve. […]

Mar, 21

Red Heat *** (1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O’Ross, Larry Fishburne, Gina Gershon) – Classic Movie Review 8249

Director Walter Hill’s 1988 action thriller Red Heat stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Russian lawman Captain Ivan Danko of the Soviet State Police, who is sent to Chicago to pick up a drug dealer, dangerous Georgian […]

Mar, 15

The Stone Killer ** (1973, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin) – Classic Movie Review 7775

The Stone Killer (1973) is another violent, unattractive Charles Bronson – Michael Winner action thriller film, released a year before their box-office bonanza with Death Wish, this time with the stone-faced Bronson as an LA […]

Nov, 11

Tequila Sunrise **** (1988, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J T Walsh, Arliss Howard, Ayre Gross) – Classic Movie Review 7650

The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]

Oct, 09

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