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Family of Cops *** (1995, Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence) – Classic Movie Review 10,662

The 74-year-old Charles Bronson stars as old cop Paul Fein in director Ted Kotcheff’s 1995 Family of Cops, the first of a series of three highly competent TV movie crime thrillers. A well cast Bronson […]

Dec, 13

My Childhood **** (1972, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8807

The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]

Aug, 09

Marius ***** (1931, Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, Alida Rouffé) – Classic Movie Review 6395

Marius is directed by the Hungarian film-maker Alexander Korda in 1931 during his stay in Paris before coming over to fly the flag for the British film industry as the founder of London Films and […]

Dec, 11

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Män som hatar kvinnor] **** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Ewa Fröling) – Classic Movie Review 6100

Director Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 Swedish thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s series of novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist  (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth […]

Oct, 17

Valentine’s Day **½ (2010, Ashton Kutcher, Julia Roberts, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Kathy Bates, Patrick Dempsey, Topher Grace, Jennifer Garner, Eric Dane, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel) – Classic Movie Review 4333

LA florist Ashton Kutcher wakes up next to attractive Jessica Alba and proposes to her. But soon she is doing the unthinkable – rejecting him. How could you, Jessica? Well, it is Valentine’s Day, and Kutcher […]

Sep, 10

Child’s Play ***½ (1988, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 4144

Co-writer/ director Tom Holland’s disturbing, highly effective 1988 fantasy horror movie Child’s Play sees Brad Dourif as the dying serial killer Charles Lee Ray who gives his soul to Chucky the doll, a seemingly innocent […]

Aug, 08

The Purge **** (2013, Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder) – Movie Review

It’s the near future, 2022 actually, violence and unemployment are eradicated, and everybody’s happy, except that on one night of the year, The Purge takes place. For 12 hours everyone has a free pass – […]

May, 29

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