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Anything for Her [Pour elle] **** (2008, Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch) – Classic Movie Review 3837

Bit by bit German star Diane Kruger has overcome her casting as just another pretty face as Helen in Troy back in 2004. Though her international breakthrough didn’t happen, she is still in the game, […]

Jun, 11

Paris Trout *** (1991, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 3739

Based on Pete Dexter’s novel, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s opulently filmed 1991 Deep South thriller, set in a small Georgia town in the 1950s, is a savage and uncomfortable experience. It concedes centre stage to Dennis Hopper’s […]

May, 22

‘G’-Men **** (1935, James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 3730

James Cagney stars in director William Keighley’s 1935 crime thriller as ‘Brick’ Davis, a thrusting lawyer, befriended and educated by big-time racketeer ‘Mac’ McKay (William Harrigan). Brick joins the side of justice as an FBI government […]

May, 21

Under Suspicion **½ (2000, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci, Thomas Jane) – Classic Movie Review 3702

Director Stephen Hopkins’s intriguing 2000 thriller stars Gene Hackman as Henry Hearst, a smug lawyer in a bad toupee, who is suspected of a girl’s murder, and becomes involved in a series of mind games with the […]

May, 12

The Roaring Twenties ***** (1939, James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 3677

Director Raoul Walsh’s essential, rousing 1939 gangster movie stars James Cagney in one of his key roles. It’s a tale of three buddies trying survive in Prohibition America after fighting together in World War One. Cagney […]

May, 08

The Phenix City Story **** (1955, Richard Kiley, Edward Andrews, John McIntire, Kathryn Crosby) – Classic Movie Review 3542

The Phenix City Story is high up on the hefty list of popular Fifties films devoted to exposing the mob activities of ‘the syndicate’ in one of America’s cities. Director Phil Karlson’s atmospheric and exciting […]

Apr, 08

Darkman **** (1990, Liam Neeson, Larry Drake, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels) – Classic Movie Review 3483

Co-writer/director Sam Raimi’s 1990 horror comic is a thrilling grand guignol horror movie. Liam Neeson gives an admirably grave performance as Peyton Westlake, a scientist who recreates himself as the shadowy avenger Darkman after he is […]

Mar, 20

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