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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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John Wick: Chapter 2 **** (2017, Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane) – Movie Review
Italian villain Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) is none too thrilled when retired ex-hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) refuses his marker to repay his debt and to make a kill for him. Santino promptly blows up his house to […]
Bitter Rice [Riso Amaro] **** (1949, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling, Vittorio Gassman) – Classic Movie Review 4768
Co-writer/ director Giuseppe De Santis’s stark, yet blatantly sexual, Italian neo-realist 1949 film study of deprived women workers in Italy’s Po Valley rice fields is famous for conferring stardom on the provocatively sensual 19-year-old Silvana […]
No Peace under the Olives [Non C’è Pace tra gli Ulivi] *** (1950, Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé, Folco Lulli) – Classic Movie Review 4767
After fighting for his country, a young Italian peasant returns to his home in the hills only to find himself involved in more bloodshed when he avenges himself on the landowner who stole his girl […]
Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review
After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]
The Big Blue [Le Grand Bleu] ***½ (1988, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 4462
Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno star as two divers, rivals since childhood, who battle for supremacy of the deep. Director Luc Besson’s fascinating but under-written and overblown 1988 movie was a huge hit with the […]
The Hawks and the Sparrows [Uccellacci e Uccelini] ***½ (1966, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi) – Classic Movie Review 4136
Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1966 bitter-sweet parable film, about an old father (the grizzled iconic comedian Totò) and his son (the director’s mop-topped discovery Ninetto Davoli) who go on their travels along the road in the […]
Splendor **** (1989, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady) – Classic Movie Review 4048
Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]