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Posts Tagged "neo noir"
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Thief of Hearts **** (1984, Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz) – Classic Movie Review 9237
Director Douglas Day Stewart’s excellent 1984 noir romantic thriller Thief of Hearts stars Steven Bauer as Scott Muller, a burglar smouldering with lust for Mickey Davis (Barbara Williams), a young married woman whose intimate diary […]
21 Bridges ** (2019, Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J K Simmons, Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch, Keith David) – Movie Review
Chadwick Boseman stars in director Brian Kirk’s run-of-the-mill crime thriller 21 Bridges as gun-happy NYPD detective Andre Davis, who leads the Manhattan manhunt for a pair of cop killer robbers (Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch), after […]
Gemini Man *** (Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong) – Movie Review
Director Ang Lee’s teasing and tantalising sci-fi action thriller Gemini Man offers great action, brilliant CGI, strong spy atmosphere, and two Will Smiths, one a retired hitman, Henry Brogan, and the other his younger clone […]
Joker *** (2019, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Todd Phillips’s neo noir origins story Joker is smart and sophisticated, slick and strong, proficient, powerful and pungent, but it is also incredibly nasty, dislikeable and unpleasant. A full-on horror movie portrait of […]
Sin City ***** (2005, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Rutger Hauer) – Classic Movie Review 8888
Directors Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s neo noir crime thriller Sin City (2005) is eye-poppingly imaginative and just plain brilliant. A graphic novel sprung to vivid life on the screen, it needs careful […]
Murphy’s Law ** (1986, Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 8730
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1986 film Murphy’s Law is a routine and violent neo noir cop thriller, with a hand-me-down plot from 48 hrs and The Gauntlet, which has the stoney-faced Charles Bronson, aged 65, […]
The Hit **** (1984, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8545
The 1984 British movie The Hit is a tough, slightly arty but nail-biting crime thriller directed with flair by Stephen Frears with much of the ironic neo noir style he shows in Gumshoe and The […]