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In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] ***** (2017, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar) – Movie Review

Really good, serious-minded German thriller. Diane Kruger great! Writer-director Fatih Akin’s In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] (2017) is a really good, serious-minded, grown-up German thriller. Diane Kruger is great as Katja Sekerci, who seeks revenge after […]

Jun, 22

Hart’s War *** (2002, Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard) – Classic Movie Review 6362

Colin Farrell plays Lieutenant Thomas Hart, an American law-student-turned GI fighting in World War Two, who is captured by enemy soldiers. He is taken to a German PoW camp, where Bruce Willis plays the ranking […]

Dec, 06

Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06

God’s Own Country **** (2017, Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart) – Movie Review

Writer-director Francis Lee’s intense 2017 film God’s Own Country is very persuasive and winning, with strong, searing performances by Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones and Ian Hart. Up on Yorkshire’s version of Brokeback Mountain, […]

Sep, 06

Island in the Sun ** (1957, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, John Williams, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 5,677

Hollywood struggles to bring the Alec Waugh bestseller about the troubled lives and inter-racial loves in the exotic Fifties British West Indies to the screen, in the then controversial 1957 drama film Island in the […]

Jun, 28

The Lords of Discipline ***½ (1983, David Keith, Robert Prosky, G D Spradlin, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 5400

British director Franc Roddam confidently tackles this 1983 American military school drama with a tough surface and a powerful theme: a condemnation of false manly values and of racism at the heart of America’s institutions. […]

May, 06

Sapphire **** (1959, Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5057

Director Basil Dearden’s pioneering issue-led 1959 British murder thriller Sapphire stars Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles, Gordon Heath, Earl Cameron, Olga Lindo, Rupert Davies and Peter Vaughan. Dearden won the 1960 […]

Feb, 24

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