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Posts Tagged "neo-noir"
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Jagged Edge **** (1985, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia) – Classic Movie Review 2039
Director Richard Marquand’s 1985 thriller hit a jagged edge of the public nerve and the box-office jackpot. On a $15million budget, it took back more than $40million in the US plus £2,450,000 in the UK. The […]
Marlowe **** (1969, James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1880
The slick and complex 1969 neo-noir thriller film Marlowe stars James Garner as Raymond Chandler’s all-time great LA private eye Philip Marlowe. It also stars Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell […]
We Gotta Get Out of This Place *** (2013, Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Mark Pellegrino) – Movie Review
We Gotta Get Out of This Place is a not great but a good, taut, tense and stylish neo-noir thriller from first-time directors the Hawkins Brothers, Simon (30) and Zeke (34). Dutch Southern writes the screenplay in […]
Cold in July *** (2014, Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson) – Movie Review
Michael C. Hall stars as the frightened everyman Richard Dane, who kills an intruder in his home one night in 1989 in Texas. Dane foolishly attend the man’s funeral, and the victim’s murderous ex-con father (Sam […]
Croupier **** (1998, Clive Owen, Alex Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 1327
Director Mike Hodges’s neglected but masterly 1998 thriller stars Clive Owen, who is superb as Jack Manfred, a struggling book writer who reluctantly takes a job as a casino croupier to make ends meet on the urging […]
Harper [The Moving Target] **** (1966, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 1302
Director Jack Smight’s hard-boiled 1966 detective-mystery thriller casts Paul Newman in an ideal guise as Lew Harper, an archetypal Los Angeles mean streets private eye, who is hired by the rich, wounded and woeful Mrs […]
Basic Instinct *** (1992, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1287
Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 shocker is a full-blooded, full-throttle sex and violence farrago of a neo-noir erotic thriller. It sees Michael Douglas settle comfortably back in Fatal Attraction mode and once again on the streets […]