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BrOTHERHOOD *** (2016, Noel Clarke, Olivia Chenery, Nick Nevern, Arnold Oceng, Jason Maza) – Movie Review

Writer-director-star Noel Clarke completes his ‘Hood trilogy with BrOTHERHOOD, which has his hero Sam Peel (Clarke) facing up to the problems of his new grown-up world in which he has settled down with a girlfriend […]

Sep, 04

London Kills Me **½ (1991, Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Hargarth, Naveen Andrews, Stevan Rimkus) – Classic Movie Review 4148

Screeen-writer/ director Hanif Kureishi’s 1991 drama stars Justin Chadwick as a poverty-stricken, homeless, shoeless youth of 20 called Clint Eastwood, who is unable to find a job but wants to get of London’s drug world by taking a job as […]

Aug, 09

National Treasure: Book of Secrets ** (2007, Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Helen Mirren, Jon Voight, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 3827

Director Jon Turteltaub’s 2007 is more of the same as the 2004 original National Treasure, except considerably slacker, far less enjoyable and much worse quality-wise, though it’s still full of fast-paced, escapist action. Nicolas Cage is back […]

Jun, 08

Werewolf of London *** (1935, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 3763

Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal horror movie Werewolf of London is the first Hollywood mainstream film to feature a werewolf. It stars Henry Hull as Dr Wilfred Glendon, who transforms from English botanist into a werewolf […]

May, 25

London Has Fallen ** (2016, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett) – Movie Review

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart are back from Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as American Secret Service man Mike Banning and the US President he’s protecting in this surprise sequel to the surprise hit. Banning’s thinking of […]

Mar, 04

The Saint’s Return [The Saint’s Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3228

‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him up FOR THE KILL!!’ Director Seymour Friedman’s 1953 crime mystery thriller for Hammer Films (released in the US as The Saint’s Girl Friday) is a very watchable British stab at reviving […]

Jan, 04

The Saint in London *** (1939, George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod, Henry Oscar, Athene Seyler, John Abbott) – Classic Movie Review 3222

For the third adventure in RKO’s The Saint series, The Saint in London (1939), super-suave George Sanders stars in his second outing as devil-may-care, debonair Simon Templar, in which he is involved with attractive, enthusiastic English […]

Jan, 03

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