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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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Terrible Joe Moran *** (1984, James Cagney, Art Carney, Ellen Barkin, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5940
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]
Narrow Margin **** (1990, Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B Sikking, J T Walsh, M Emmet Walsh, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 5908
‘It will take you to the edge of suspense.’ Director Peter Hyams’s ultra-suspense 1990 thriller Narrow Margin is a thrillingly exciting version for the Nineties of the 1952 RKO classic The Narrow Margin about a […]
Married to the Mob **** (1988, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Trey Wilson, Joan Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 5351
Director Jonathan Demme’s 1988 sweet and sophisticated Mob movie Married to the Mob stars a drop-dead gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer, who turns in another winning performance as Angela deMarco, a woman who finds herself in mortal peril […]
Absence of Malice **** (1981, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Barry Primus, Josef Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 5036
Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]
Last Man Standing **** (1996, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson) – Classic Movie Review 4927
Writer-director Walter Hill’s dark, dour and downbeat 1996 American gangster movie remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Japanese adventure Yojimbo (1961) is a thrilling action movie. It stars Bruce Willis as John Smith, Christopher Walken as Hickey, Bruce Dern […]
Dirty Deeds **½ (2003, Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, John Goodman, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 4864
Bryan Brown’s crime boss Barry Ryan tackles his angry wife Sharon (Toni Collette), a bent cop named Detective Sergeant Ray Murphy (Sam Neill) and a nasty US crook called Tony Testano (John Goodman) in writer-director […]
Shaft **** (1971, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St John, Lawrence Pressman) – Classic Movie Review 4,586
Richard Roundtree heads a mostly African-American cast in a sterling, iconic performance as the cool, hip private detective John Shaft, in the culturally and historically significant 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film Shaft. […]