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If Beale Street Could Talk *** (2018, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Diego Luna, Finn Wittrock, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein) – Movie Review

Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s drama If Beale Street Could Talk is based on James Baldwin’s novel about the newly engaged young Harlem woman Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), who tries to prove her jailed fiancé Fonny (Stephan […]

Feb, 09

Red Sonja *** (1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman) – Classic Movie Review 7840

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1985 Red Sonja is a fairly amusing sword-and-sorcery romp culled from the fantasy adventure stories of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E Howard and based on the character created by him. The remarkable […]

Nov, 27

Hannie Caulder *** (1971, Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors, Stephen Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 7781

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1971 Hannie Caulder is an admirably strange if nasty-toned Anglo-Spanish spaghetti Western, made in Spain but set in Mexico, where Hannie (Raquel Welch) enlists the help of drifting bounty hunter Tom Price […]

Nov, 13

Joy **** (2018, Anwulika Alphonsus, Angela Ekeleme, Mariam Sanusi) – Movie Review

You just know that if a film is call Joy, there will be no darned joy anywhere. And writer-director Sudabeh Mortezai’s 2018 Joy is certainly joyless. It is a tale of woe. Anwulika Alphonsus stars as […]

Oct, 03

Soldier Blue **** (1970, Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 6,458

‘Raze the village! Burn this pestilence!’ Ralph Nelson’s intelligent 1970 Western film Soldier Blue has real quality – if you can stomach the strong violence. It stars Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss and Donald Pleasence. ‘Raze […]

Dec, 23

Bad Lieutenant ***** (1992, Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Lund, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito) – Classic Movie Review 6127

Co-writer/ director Abel Ferrara’s eye-opening 1992 screen-scalder stars a career best Harvey Keitel, who is astonishing in a full-frontal performance as the kind of corrupt New York City police detective who steals drugs from a […]

Oct, 23

Blue Steel ** (1989, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Kevin Dunn, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6040

Jamie Lee Curtis gives one of her most captivating performances as a tough rookie cop in co-writer/ director Kathryn Bigelow’s powerful 1989 action crime thriller. NYPD officer Megan Turner (Curtis) falls in love with the […]

Sep, 24

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