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Hellraiser: Inferno ** (2001, Craig Sheffer, Nicholas Turturro, James Remar) – Classic Movie Review 6120

‘The Terrifying New Chapter In The Hellraiser Legacy!’ Co-writer/ producer/ director Scott Derrickson’s promised 2001 fifth episode is another contrived low-budget ($2 million) mess, but with some reasonable performances, okay effects, and enough exciting Hellraiser violence […]

Oct, 21

Dick Tracy **½ (1945, Morgan Conway, Mike Mazurki, Anne Jeffreys, Jane Greer) – Classic Movie Review 5,593

Morgan Conway stars as police detective Dick Tracy, who pursues maniacal murderer Splitface (Mike Mazurki), a lunatic embarked on a campaign of gruesome deaths, in RKO’s 1945 crime thriller film Dick Tracy. Director William A […]

Jun, 12

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome *** (1947, Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne) – Classic Movie Review 5591

‘SLEUTH TRACY CLASHES WITH HIS DEADLIEST FOE!’ Ralph Byrd bows out in style as an ideal Dick Tracy (cinemawise, anyway, for a TV series followed for him in 1950-51) in director John Rawlins’s welcome 1947 […]

Jun, 12

Dick Tracy ***½ (1990, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 5568

Producer/ director/ star Warren Beatty’s blockbuster comic strip parody Dick Tracy, based on the comic strip characters created by Chester Gould, was 1990’s most-hyped movie. In a huge star turn, Beatty impersonates the Thirties cartoon-strip […]

Jun, 10

Creepy ***½ (2016, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Higashide, Toru Baba) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2016 Japanese serial killer thriller film Creepy is just that – creepy! Teruyuki Kagawa plays the creep Nishino, the distinctly oddball new neighbour of the former Tokyo police detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who has […]

Nov, 18

Inside Man **** (2006, Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 4516

New York cop Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is engaged in a risky game of cat and mouse with smooth criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), leader of a gang of robbers disguised in painters’ outfits, who storm […]

Oct, 23

Circus of Fear [Psycho-Circus] ** (1966, Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Suzy Kendall, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 4,291

An armoured car is robbed on London’s Tower Bridge. The 1966 Anglo-German thriller film Circus of Fear is based on Edgar Wallace’s novel Again the Three Just Men, and stars Christopher Lee, Suzy Kendall, Leo […]

Sep, 03

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