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The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

The War Zone *** (1998, Freddie Cunliffe, Ray Winstone, Lara Belmont, Tilda Swinton, Colin Farrell, Kate Ashfield, Aisling O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 4382

An alienated teenage boy (Freddie Cunliffe) begins to suspect his father (Ray Winstone) is abusing his older sister (Lara Belmont) in director Tim Roth’s well-meaning, painstaking though alienating 1998 film of a controversial novel by […]

Sep, 19

The Skeleton Key ** (2005, Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Joy Bryant ) – Classic Movie Review 4283

Kate Hudson stars in the 2005 horror movie The Skeleton Key as Caroline Ellis, who takes a job as live-in carer at the Louisiana plantation house of elderly Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands), looking after her […]

Sep, 01

La Cérémonie [A Judgement in Stone] **** (1995, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen) – Classic Movie Review 4,192

Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]

Aug, 17

Volver **** (2006, Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo, Blanca Portillo, Chus Lampreave) – Classic Movie Review 3579

This tantalising and sophisticated 2006 comedy crime drama is Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 18th feature film. Its star Penélope Cruz was Oscar nominated in 2007 for her performance here and became the first Spanish actress ever […]

Apr, 16

Mata Hari ** (1985, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3561

A beautiful, often-naked Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) stars as the real-life Dutch-born dancer and German spy Mata Hari, in director Curtis Harrington’s interesting sex-obsessed soft-porn 1985 film version of the World War One spy story, with […]

Apr, 13

The Ghoul ** (1975, Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo) – Classic Movie Review 2906

Director Freddie Francis’s 1975 British horror movie is an unusual, strenuous tale of terror in the attic, with the odd imaginative touch glittering among a generous helping of horror-movie clichés. Anthony Hinds’s plot is certainly […]

Sep, 13

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