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Solace **½ (2015, Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley) – Movie Review

Director Afonso Poyart’s 2015 serial killer thriller provides a good role for the 77-year-old Anthony Hopkins – it’s the main role, when parts for Sir A are difficult to organise. He grabs it eagerly, not […]

Sep, 23

The Rock **** (1996, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John C McGinley, Vanessa Marcil) – Classic Movie Review 2726

Everybody just loved The Rock. The cheeky 1996 action thriller about a threatened nerve gas attack on San Francisco stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and is directed by Michael Bay, for producers […]

Jul, 21

Passenger 57 *** (1992, Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 2299

Director Kevin Hooks’s 1992 action crime thriller is an engagingly preposterous slice of energised, vigorous hokum. There’s a decent Die Hard on a plane set-up and a good star turn and an effective villain, but an […]

Mar, 22

Black Dog ** (1998, Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf) – Classic Movie Review 2298

Director Kevin Hooks’s 1998 movie stars Patrick Swayze, who goes for a modest comeback in a very basic, threadbare B-movie thriller about a down-on-his-luck ex-con trucker called Jack Crews. He takes a job driving a truck […]

Mar, 22

Pickup on South Street ***** (1953, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 2069

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]

Jan, 11

The Watcher *** (2000, Keanu Reeves, James Spader, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 1598

Director Joe Charbanic’s 2000 mystery crime thriller The Watcher stars Keanu Reeves, who this time takes a showy but nasty role as a serial killer called David Allen Griffin. He is a meticulous murderer, each […]

Aug, 28

The Firm *** (1993, Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn) – Classic Movie Review 1536

Director Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller stars Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a promising young Harvard Law attorney about to sit his Bar exam. He is approached by Alice Davison, Lambert & Locke (The Firm) […]

Aug, 11

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