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Mechanic: Resurrection *½ (2016, Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Hazeldine) – Movie Review
Jason Statham returns as Arthur Bishop in this fast-paced but ludicrous 2016 all-action thriller from German director Dennis Gansel, who does manage plenty of exciting action thrills but no tension or credibility at all. It is a […]
McQ ** (1974, John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, Clu Gulager, David Huddleston, Al Lettieri) – Classic Movie Review 3414
John Wayne stars as Detective Lieutenant Lon McQ, a Dirty Harry-style cop on the trail of the hood who killed his best friend and partner. This leads McQ to uncover corrupt elements in the police […]
Hitman: Agent 47 ** (2015, Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto) – Movie Review
A grim, shaven-headed Rupert Friend stars an elite assassin genetically engineered to be the perfect killing machine, with huge strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. Director Aleksander Bach‘s Hitman reboot, based on the video game series, is […]
Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818
Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]
Prizzi’s Honor ***** (1985, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, William Hickey, John Randolph) – Classic Movie Review 2805
Director John Huston’s absolutely brilliant 1985 black-comedy Mafia movie thriller, based on Richard Condon’s novel, stars Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna, a hitman who works for the Prizzi crime syndicate family. Charley is soon up […]
Wild at Heart **** (1990, Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 2644
Writer-director David Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or best film winner at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as newly released convict Sailor Ripley and his girlfriend Lula Fortune. Sailor and Lula ignore […]
I Hired a Contract Killer **** (1990, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley) – Classic Movie Review 2591
Writer/director Aki Kaurismåki’s offbeat 1990 black-comedy thriller stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Henri Boulanger, a terminally depressed Frenchman in London. It is a splendidly quirky and truly funny movie, a little gem. Henri is so depressed after being […]