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- Aleksandr’s Price **½ (2013, Pau Masó, Anatoli Grek, Josh Berresford, Samantha Glovin, Keith Dougherty) – Classic Movie Review 13,276
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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ***** (1920, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover) – Classic Movie Review 1,574
Robert Wiene’s legendary 1920 German silent horror film masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr Caligari stars Werner Krauss as the mad magician Dr Caligari, who hypnotises his tame somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to carry out a series […]
Beverly Hills Cop **** (1984, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot, Jonathan Banks) – Classic Movie Review 1,566
The lean and hungry Eddie Murphy (just 23) scores a bull’s eye with the 1984 blockbuster comedy thriller film Beverly Hills Cop, bringing back the cynical, glossy flavour of the 80s. Murphy stars in his […]
The Rover ***½ (2014, Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy) – Movie Review
At 47, a scarily ravaged-looking Guy Pearce stars as Eric, a hardened, cold-blooded drifter loner who relentlessly pursues the men who stole his car, which he cares for passionately as his last remaining possession, across the […]
Last Dance *** (1996, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1484
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1996 release stars Sharon Stone, who gives one of her least typical performances in this incredibly depressing drama. It was dubbed Dead Woman Walking as it’s about Cindy Liggett, a female killer […]
Magnum Force **** (1973, Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich) – Classic Movie Review 1461
Clint Eastwood makes a welcome return in 1973 to his iconic role as maverick cop Inspector ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan in Magnum Force, the first sequel to his 1971 action thriller hit Dirty Harry, this time investigating […]
City by the Sea ** (2002, Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 1430
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s 2002 character-driven thriller is interesting and sometimes involving, but often surprisingly shaky. Ken Hixon writes the slightly struggling screenplay from an article, Mark of a Murderer by Mike McAlary. Well it’s more […]
The Grifters ***** (1990, Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1354
Director Stephen Frears’s hardboiled 1990 thriller takes no prisoners and does 100 per cent justice to its rightly revered source author Jim Thompson. It finds Anjelica Huston on scalding form as Lilly Dillon, a small-time […]