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Bullitt ***** (1968, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 941
British director Peter Yates’s 1968 thriller is the best-ever car chase movie as well as (arguably) the quintessential Steve McQueen movie. There’s a riveting police detective yarn too, in which one San Francisco cop is the […]
Farewell, My Lovely **** (1975, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Spinell, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 740
Director Dick Richards just caught Robert Mitchum, aged 58, while he was still in his world-weary prime in 1975 to play classic private eye Philip Marlowe in this enjoyable, taut and atmospheric remake of Raymond […]
The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742
Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]
I, Robot **** (2004, Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell) – Classic Movie Review 714
Set in in 2035, director Alex Proyas’s gleaming, intelligent 2004 sci-fi thriller supposes that robots are our trusty helpers, governed by three laws that prevent them from harming us. Will Smith kicks up a storm […]
Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon] ****½ (1957, Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Brian Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 500
In director Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 vintage British horror movie Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon], Niall MacGinnis has a fine old time as occultist and devil cult leader Dr Julian Karswell, who summons […]
Insomnia **** (2002, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank) – Classic Movie Review 472
Director Christopher Nolan’s 2002 movie is a distinguished, creepy remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller Insomnia that starred Stellan Skarsgård. This time it is Al Pacino’s turn to look tired. That’s because he hasn’t had […]
Laura ***** (1944, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 335
‘The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!’ Director Otto Preminger’s glorious 1944 romantic mystery thriller Laura in the best film noir vein still exerts its […]