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Brighton Rock ***** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Alan Wheatley, Carol Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 724

Richard Attenborough gives an inspired, chilling performance as the psychotic young tearaway Pinkie Brown in the Boulting Brothers’ marvellous 1947 film version of Graham Greene’s classic novel Brighton Rock. The 24-year-old Richard Attenborough gives an […]

Jan, 19

Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659

A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]

Jan, 09

Predator 2 **** (1990, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Bill Paxton, Kevin Peter Hall) – Classic Film Review 562

With Arnold Schwarzenegger too busy on Terminator 2: Judgment Day to do the sequel to his 1987 hit, Danny Glover stars in 1990 as veteran LAPD officer detective lieutenant Mike Harrigan, the Predator’s hunter-turned-prey. With original […]

Dec, 22

Twenty Four Seven ***½ (1997, Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum) – Classic Film Review 479

Bob Hoskins enjoys himself enormously in a tailor-made role as Alan Darcy, an inspired visionary who sets up a boxing club for a bleak English Midlands town’s dissolute youth. His diaries chart the lads’ comic […]

Dec, 07

Reservoir Dogs ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Eddie Bunker, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Chris Penn) – Classic Film Review 361

‘Let’s go to work’ – Ad slogan. The 29-year-old Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 debut movie proved his spectacular breakthrough. With no holds barred, a new star writer-director, what the French call an auteur, was born. Reservoir Dogs is […]

Nov, 03

Face **** (1997, Robert Carlyle, Steven Waddington, Ray Winstone, Philip Davis, Damon Albarn) – Classic Movie Review 328

A London gang’s ramraid heist on a money-counting depot goes to plan for a change. But it turns out one of their number is a traitor. Who’s the rotten apple? Criminal with a conscience, ex-socialist […]

Oct, 27

The Fast and the Furious **** (2001, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune) – Classic Movie Review 311

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker take the fast track to stardom in the heart-pounding 2001 action thriller The Fast and the Furious, a fine example of a high-octane thrill-ride of a movie totally exceeding a […]

Oct, 22

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