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I Know Where I’m Going! **** (1945, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney) – Classic Movie Review 618

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s typically idiosyncratic 1945 romantic comedy is simply enchanting. The film boasts irresistible acting from the great cast of some of Britain’s most reliable performers of the day, a lovely screenplay with […]

Jan, 03

Panic Room **** (2002, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yokam) – Classic Movie Review 591

Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart (just 12) star in 2002 as Meg and Sarah Altman, a young divorcée and her diabetic daughter who buy a gorgeous, huge, fancy New York apartment, a brownstone mansion that boasts a […]

Dec, 29

Suspicion ***** (1941, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 441

Alfred Hitchcock’s richly enjoyable and likeable 1941 thriller Suspicion (1941) is a sweaty exercise in anxiety. Both stars Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are at the peak of their career, powers and attraction. In the […]

Nov, 23

Jackie Brown ***** (1997, Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Forster, Michael Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 366

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino returned for his third movie in 1997 with the ultra-tense, pounding and highly impressive low-life crime thriller Jackie Brown, written for the screen by Tarantino and securely based on Elmore Leonard’s novel […]

Nov, 04

No Country for Old Men ***** (2007, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin) – Classic Movie Review 334

The Coen Brothers’ sensational, sizzling 2007 crime thriller film No Country for Old Men won four Oscars, was their biggest hit so far, and was undoubtedly the movie of the year. Certainly the Academy Award […]

Oct, 27

Hard Eight **** (1996, Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 316

Suspense, wit, atmosphere, sudden death and fine character study are the name of the game in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s superb, stylish, hard-nosed 1996 thriller Hard Eight. Anderson’s feature debut is graced with the performance […]

Oct, 23

Hard Rain **** (1998, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner) – Classic Movie Review 315

Director Mikael Salomon’s extremely well done, exciting, first-class 1998 crime thriller Hard Rain boasts a new idea at its heart and a wonderfully convincing production, achieved under the most difficult of circumstances. A storm hits […]

Oct, 23

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