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Jackass: The Movie * (2002, Johnny Knoxville Bam Margera Steve-O) – Classic Movie Review 5191

Perpetrating a series of crude and risky stunts, and gross-out gags, Johnny Knoxville and a bunch of idiots make asses of themselves in director Jeff Tremaine’s offensive 2002 cinema movie of the offensive TV series. […]

Mar, 23

Tokyo Joe *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly, Alexander Knox, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5,068

Humphrey Bogart stars in the 1949 film noir crime thriller Tokyo Joe as American veteran Joe Barrett, who returns to Tokyo after World War Two to try to resume his life as part-owner of a […]

Feb, 26

Hiroshima Mon Amour ***** (1959, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 4885

The debut movie of the all-time great director Alain Resnais is a beautifully crafted gem, with an intelligent, challenging screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Emmanuelle Riva stars as Elle, a French actress who has an affair […]

Jan, 13

Silence *** (2016, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson) – Movie Review

I know I’m going to regret this, but here goes. Director Martin Scorsese is determined to give us a bad time from the get-go for his extreme, take-no-prisoners 2016 religious drama with torture from the […]

Jan, 08

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift *** (2006, Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Bow Wow, Brian Tee) – Classic Movie Review 4536

Director Justin Lin’s 2006 American action movie sequel is exciting, busy, fast moving and action packed. It is The Fast and the Furious 3 is all but name. Rebooting the franchise, it stars Lucas Black as American teenager Sean […]

Oct, 26

Torpedo Run *** (1958, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L Q Jones, Philip Ober) – Classic Movie Review 4437

Director Joseph Pevney’s edgy, intelligent and capably directed 1958 World War Two action adventure is helped by Glenn Ford’s earnest, strong-note star role as dogged, semi-crazed American submarine commander Barney Doyle. He vows to stop […]

Sep, 30

The Toxic Avenger Part II ** (1989, Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere) – Classic Movie Review 4378

Producers-directors Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s 1989 horror spoof sequel is often surprisingly funny, avoiding the trap of being simply stupid that is the fate of most movies of this kind. Some dull patches keep […]

Sep, 18

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