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Ocean’s Thirteen **** (2007, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Bernie Mac, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 3246

It’s lucky 13 when George Clooney returns again as Danny Ocean and rounds up his boys Brad Pitt’s Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon’s Linus Caldwell and co for a third heist, after Al Pacino’s casino owner Willy […]

Jan, 07

Dillinger **** (1973, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, John P Ryan, John Martino, Roy Jenson) – Classic Movie Review 3241

Writer-director John Milius’s 1973 thriller for American International Pictures casts Warren Oates in his first starring role as America’s public enemy number one John Dillinger. Début director Milius’s gangster movie is tough, pulsating and uncompromising […]

Jan, 05

Dillinger **** (1945, Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr, Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 3234

Director Max Nosseck’s 1945 thriller is an excellent B-movie gangster film Dillinger, which uses imagination and skill to triumph over its low-budget cheapness and enjoys a claim to being humble poverty row Monogram Pictures’ best […]

Jan, 05

The Punisher ** (2004, Tom Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Samantha Mathis, Ben Foster, Rebecca Romijn, Roy Scheider) – Classic Movie Review 3117

There are a few bright spots and an ideal star to enliven this grim and largely misbegotten remake of the 1989 Dolph Lundgren action thriller, based on Stan Lee’s dark-toned Marvel comic-strip caper. Thomas Jane stars as […]

Dec, 01

Ransom ***½ (1996, Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Liev Schreiber, Lili Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2,999

Mel Gibson is a satisfyingly edgy in director Ron Howard’s tense, robust, well-made 1996 thriller film remake Ransom, with some solid bursts of action. Making a good job of a rather grim part, a satisfyingly […]

Oct, 20

Sicario **** (2015, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro) – Movie Review

New US citizen Emily Blunt stars as idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer, who heads an FBI team on an pounding opening assault on an Arizona drug cartel hideaway, revealing a pile of bodies. Then Macer […]

Oct, 07

Wild Side *** (1995, Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche, Steven Bauer, Allen Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2934

Take a Walken on the Wild Side. Director Donald Cammell’s bizarre, disturbing, challenging last film from 1995, restored as the ‘director’s cut’ in 2000 with the help of Frank Mazzola, the original film editor, gets […]

Sep, 30

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