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Live by Night ** (2016, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review
Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]
Year of the Dragon **** (1985, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane) – Classic Movie Review 3965
Director Michael Cimino’s ferocious 1985 thriller Year of the Dragon is complex and exciting. It boasts a convincingly dangerous star performance from Mickey Rourke as Stanley White, the police detective on the edge who is […]
Safe Men *** (1998, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 2882
Writer-director John Hamburg’s 1998 comedy crime thriller is a splendidly rum brew. Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn give effortlessly weird performances as pathetic, self-deluded, low-life crooks way out of their depth in the underworld of […]
The Raid 2 (Iko Uwais) – Movie Review
Iko Uwais is back as Jakarta cop Rama in Welsh director Gareth Evans’s astounding, pounding, scalding epic Indonesian gangster movie sequel to the 2011 blockbuster. Two and a half hours of serious, full-on non-stop action, it’s […]
The Dark Knight ***** (2008, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart) – Classic Movie Review 847
Three years on from Batman Begins (2005), co-writer/director Christopher Nolan follows up with his 2008 Batman/Dark Knight reboot sequel that is arguably even more thrilling. This time Nolan boldly takes on Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) directly, […]
Batman Begins ***** (2005, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 846
The darkness falls over Gotham City and co-writer/director Christopher Nolan’s thrilling 2005 Batman/Dark Knight reboot is a triumph, and so is Christian Bale’s sombre Bruce Wayne/Batman, who is centre stage all the way as we discover […]
The Business **** (2005, Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell, Roland Manookian) – Classic Movie Review 684
Director Nick Love’s 2005 film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian, all of whom were in Love’s previous film The Football Factory. The cool look and sounds of the Eighties conjure up the otherwise ghastly […]