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- The End of the Line * (1957, Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley, Arthur Gomez, Jennifer Jayne, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 13,270
- Incident at Phantom Hill **½ (1966, Robert Fuller, Dan Duryea, Jocelyn Lane, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,269
- Naked Fury ** (1959, Reed de Rouen, Kenneth Cope, Leigh Madison) – Classic Movie Review 13,268
- Bones and Names [Knochen und Namen] *** (2023, Fabian Stumm in his feature directorial debut, starring himself along with Knut Berger, Marie-Lou Sellem, Susie Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 13,267
- The Guilty *** (2021, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 13,266
- Five Golden Dragons * (1967, Robert Cummings, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Brian Donlevy, Dan Duryea, George Raft) – Classic Movie Review 13,265
- The Inspector General *** (1949, Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,264
- Yossi & Jagger ***½ (2002, Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Asi Cohen, Aya Koren) – Classic Movie Review 13,263
- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
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You Only Live Once ***** (1937, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, William Gargan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 2176
Fritz Lang’s splendid 1937 film noir crime melodrama thriller You Only Live Once is one of his best, most distinguished movies. It stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney and is set in Depression-hit America. Director […]
I Walk Alone **** (1948, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2,158
‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]
Lucky Break *** (2001, James Nesbitt, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Christopher Plummer, Olivia Williams, Lennie James, Ron Cook, Frank Harper) – Classic Movie Review 2124
Producer-director Peter Cattaneo’s spritely and amusing 2001 British comedy Lucky Break stars James Nesbitt, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy and Lennie James as a bunch of convicts who are locked up in a jolly sort of […]
Son of a Gun **** (2014, Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander) – Movie Review
Debut feature writer-director Julius Avery’s nerve-jangling Aussie prison drama, then gold heist thriller is an action crime caper with attitude and a commendably tough tone. Filmed on fresh, atmospheric Aussie locations, t’s all it should be – tense, […]
Midnight Express **** (1978, Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L Smith, Norbert Weisser, Mike Kellin) – Classic Movie Review 2073
Director Alan Parker’s horrific double Oscar-winning 1978 real-life drama of courage and the will to survive stars Brad Davis, who digs deep into his role of a lifetime as the young American college student Billy […]
Palmetto ** (1998, Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny) – Classic Movie Review 2017
Director Volker Schlöndorff‘s 1998 thriller is an interesting failure as a fatally flawed version of James Hadley Chase’s novel Just Another Sucker, adapted here by screenwriter E Max Frye. Woody Harrelson stars as Harry Barber, […]
Horrible Bosses 2 ** (2014, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day) – Movie Review
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day are back as Nick, Kurt and Dale, who previously had horrible bosses but now decide to start a business of their own making patented shower heads – the Shower […]