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High Heels [Tacones lejanos] **** (1991, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 887

‘I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I never stop loving you.’ –  Rebecca Giner. In his 1991 movie High Heels (Tacones Lejanos) writer-director Pedro Almodóvar  comes up the weirdest and most contrived of plots […]

Mar, 09

The Prophecy II **** (1998, Christopher Walken, Russell Wong, Jennifer Beals, Brittany Murphy, Eric Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 836

Christopher Walken reprises his role as the extremely bad and dangerous, and now angry, fallen Archangel Gabriel in director Greg Spence’s eerie, exuberant and often very compelling supernatural 1998 horror-fantasy thriller sequel to the 1995 […]

Feb, 16

I Shot Andy Warhol **** (1996, Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton, Tahnee Welch, Myriam Cyr, Stephen Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 820

Co-writer/director Mary Harron tells the thoughtful and provocative true story of how the dangerously unbalanced Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) ingratiated herself into Andy Warhol’s weird circle of artists and intellectuals, freaks and fakes, and then, […]

Feb, 09

RoboCop *** (2014, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel) – Movie Review

First of all, Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 futuristic action thriller is a cracking classic that didn’t need remaking. But, that said, if you must remake it, director José Padilha’s movie is the way to go. Swedish […]

Feb, 06

Mystic River ***** (2003, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 468

Sean Penn won a well-deserved best actor Oscar as Jimmy Markum, a Boston ex-con who takes the law into his own hands when he thinks one of his childhood buddies, Dave Boyle, has murdered his teenage […]

Dec, 04

Jackie Brown ***** (1997, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Michael Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 366

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino returned for his third movie in 1997 with the ultra-tense, pounding and highly impressive low-life crime thriller Jackie Brown, written for the screen by Tarantino and securely based on Elmore Leonard’s novel […]

Nov, 04

Le Jour se Leve [Daybreak] ***** (1939, Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, Jules Berry) – Classic Movie Review 354

French maestro Marcel Carné’s 1939 masterwork is a moody, atmospheric, haunting romantic thriller. Jean Gabin stars as a nice ordinary factory worker Francois, who is holed up and barricaded in the furnished room of his garret, cornered […]

Nov, 03

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