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- Incident at Midnight ** (1963, Anton Diffring, William Sylvester, Justine Lord, Martin Miller) – Classic Movie Review 13,337
- High Tide *** (2024, Marco Pigossi, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 13,336
- The Set Up *** (1963, Maurice Denham, John Carson, Maria Corvin, Brian Peck, Anthony Bate, John Arnatt, Pamela Greer) – Classic Movie Review 13,335
- Death Trap *** (1962, Albert Lieven, Barbara Shelley, John Meillon, Mercy Haystead, Kenneth Cope, Leslie Sands, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 13,334
- The Devil’s Daffodil ** (1961, Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, Penelope Horner, William Lucas, Colin Jeavons, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 13,333
- Locker Sixty Nine ***½ (1962, Eddie Byrne, Paul Daneman, John Carson, Walter Brown, Penelope Horner, Edward Underdown, Clarissa Stolz, John Glyn-Jones, Edwin Richfield, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 13,332
- Carry-On ** (2024, Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Jason Bateman) – Classic Movie Review 13,331
- Time To Remember ** (1962, Yvonne Monlaur, Harry H Corbett, Robert Rietty) – Classic Movie Review 13,330
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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
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The Living Daylights **** (1987 Timothy Dalton, Maryam d’Abo, Jeroen Krabbé) – Classic Movie Review 414
Playing it more like the James Bond of Ian Fleming’s novels, Timothy Dalton made his excellent debut as a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense Bond in John Glen’s exciting 1987 007 film. This time round, as well as […]
Die Another Day *** (2002, Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike) – Classic Movie Review 408
Forty years on from Dr No, in 2002, James Bond finds that diamonds are forever as he investigates a Korean terrorist and a diamond broker. All the usual 007 elements are shaken and pretty well […]
The Deer Hunter ***** (1978, Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 346
The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]
Escape Plan *** (2013, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill, Jim Caviezel) – Film Review
It’s great to have Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger back on screen together and it’s good that this is old-fashioned bruiser stuff. Highly appropriately, it’s a very 80s-style vehicle with a very B-movie feel, tailored […]
A Good Day to Die Hard ** (2013, Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch) – Movie Review
Yippee ky-nothing. The fifth instalment of the Die Hard franchise is a bit of a dud but it does get a lift from an epic car chase across Moscow and your residual sympathy for its […]
The Wooden Horse **** (1950, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Michael Goodliffe, Bryan Forbes, Russell Waters, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 200
Director Jack Lee’s famous 1950 film is deservedly one of the best-loved escape stories of World War Two, with a screenplay by Eric Williams, based on his autobiographical book, originally written under a pseudonym of […]