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Crimes of Passion [China Blue] *** (1984, Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 5449
Director Ken Russell pulls off a precarious tightrope trick over the pit of bad taste thanks to his unique pictorial style and the audacity of his actors’ performances in his 1984 thriller. Kathleen Turner stars […]
The Apostle **** (1997, Robert Duvall, Todd Allen, Farrah Fawcett) – Classic Movie Review 5401
Writer-director-star Robert Duvall’s 1997 drama is extraordinary, motored by Duvall’s barnstormingly powerful performance as an extremely egotistical religious man, the Texas preacher Euliss ‘Sonny’ Dewey, who sets himself above everything and everybody. His life falls […]
Dirty Dingus Magee *** (1970, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Jack Elam, Lois Nettleton, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Harry Carey Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 4865
Western expert producer-director Burt Kennedy’s roistering, boisterous 1970 B-movie-style Western finds its star Frank Sinatra enjoying himself in an unusually very broad performance as a dopey outlaw. That would be Dirty Dingus Billy Magee. With good performers […]
Brimstone **** (2016, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Kit Harington, Carice van Houten) – Movie Review
Guy Pearce (now 49) has a grand old time as The Reverend, the apparently unstoppable vengeful preacher villain of Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s incredibly powerful, awe-inspiring epic 2016 Western. The movie is a real wow! So is […]
The Birth of a Nation *** (2016, Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley) – Movie Review
Writer-director Nate Parker’s 2016 biographical drama tells the true story of Nat Turner, born into slavery, but who becomes literate and a preacher in the antebellum American South of Virginia in 1831. Nat preaches to his fellow slaves, encouraging them […]
Wise Blood ****½ (1979, Brad Dourif, John Huston, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 4121
Director John Huston’s brilliant 1979 film version of Flannery O’Connor’s dramatic Deep South tale is nothing short of inspired. In arguably still his best performance to date, Brad Dourif gives a brilliant portrait of a […]
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]