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Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906

The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]

Dec, 15

Romper Stomper ** (1992, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 6955

Writer-director Geoffrey Wright’s pacy, noisy and unrestrained 1992 Australian film looks at the social forces that bring about a tribe of neo-Nazi skinheads who are enraged how their neighbourhood is changing and battle rival Vietnamese […]

Apr, 22

The Big Shot *** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6,902

The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot is a now forgotten assembly-line movie for Humphrey Bogart, who stars as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity […]

Apr, 08

Rage at Dawn *** (1955, Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, J Carrol Naish, Mala Powers, Edgar Buchanan, Ray Teal, Myron Healey, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 6599

Director Tim Whelan’s 1955 Western stars Randolph Scott as canny Peterson Detective Agency undercover agent James Barlow, who is taken on by the Chicago cops to hoodwink and round up the rotten real-life Reno Brothers (Forrest […]

Jan, 25

Brother *** (2000, Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude Maki) – Classic Movie Review 6530

Writer-director Takeshi Kitano also stars as an exiled Japanese gangster who teams up with a US mobster (Omar Epps) to battle for Los Angeles’s prime drug turf. This violent, stylishly arty 2000 crime thriller finds […]

Jan, 06

9 Fingers [9 doigts] * (2017, Damien Bonnard, Diogo Dória, Elvire, Damien Bonnard, Gaspard Ulliel) – Movie Review

Paul Hamy stars in writer-director F J  Ossang’s pretentious, alienating art movie as a man called Magloire who is on the run with no luggage or purpose till he meets a dying man who gives him a […]

Oct, 02

Too Many Crooks **** (1959, Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sidney James, Joe Melia, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 6002

Director Mario Zampi’s nimble and nifty 1959 British crime comedy stars the irreplaceable comedy gods Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw and Sidney James, who of course greatly enliven this daft but amusing satire on racketeer […]

Aug, 30

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