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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
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- 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
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Blood of the Vampire *** (1958, Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern, Andrew Faulds) – Classic Movie Review 6266
Director Henry Cass’s lusty 1958 British horror movie stars Donald Wolfit as the anaemic mad scientist Dr Callistratus, who uses criminal inmates of his 1880 Transylvania insane asylum for his blood-typing research and transfusion experiments to replenish […]
The Fiend Who Walked the West ** (1958, Hugh O’Brian, Dolores Michaels, Robert Evans, Edward Andrews, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Ron Ely) – Classic Movie Review 6086
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1958 film The Fiend Who Walked the West is a full-blooded Western reworking of ideas from the 1947 Kiss of Death, with Robert Evans going enjoyably over the top as a psychotic murderer […]
Good Time **** (2017, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review
The ironically titled Good Time is an extremely powerful thriller, mega tense and atmospheric. Career best performance (so far) by Robert Pattinson, a revelation, complete with rock solid, very particular American accent. Robert Pattinson and […]
Racer and the Jailbird [Le Fidèle] ** (2017, Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Kerem Can, Sam Louwyck, Stefaan Degand) – Movie Review
Matthias Schoenaerts stars as high-flying low-life Brussels gangster Gigi, who is introduced to young upper-class racing driver Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by her brother at a party. Gigi hits on Bibi at once. Bibi is charmed. They agree to meet again in a […]
Kiss of the Spider Woman [Beijo da Mulher Aranha] ***** (1985, William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga) – Classic Movie Review 5889
Director Hector Babenco’s provocative 1985 US Brazilian drama Kiss of the Spider Woman [Beijo da Mulher Aranha] stars William Hurt, who won the 1986 Best Actor Oscar for his brave and outstanding performance as an […]
The Criminal [Concrete Jungle] **** (1960, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 5843
Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]
The Weak and the Wicked [Young and Willing] **** (1954, Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Rachel Roberts, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 5747
‘Confessions of an Ex-Convict Who Strips Bare the Raw Facts!’ Co-writer/ director J Lee Thompson’s 1953 British prison drama stars a formidable sextet in Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Rachel Roberts and Sidney […]