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San Quentin **½ (1937, Pat O’Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 5070

Humphrey Bogart is in trouble again in prison – San Quentin – in director Lloyd Bacon’s moderate 1937 film noir-style jail movie, in which he plays hardened inmate ‘Red’ Kennedy, sentenced to jail for robbery. Meanwhile […]

Feb, 27

Hell or High Water **** (2016, Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, John-Paul Howard, Marin Ireland, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars as bad-tempered, well crusty, old sheriff Marcus Hamilton, who with his buddy Mexican Indian cop Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) is doggedly on the trail of divorced dad Toby Howard and his ex-con brother Tanner, […]

Sep, 08

Duel in the Sun **** (1946, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 4103

Producer David Selznick’s rousing 1946 Technicolor Western is blatantly obvious, luridly colourful and terribly kitsch. Selznick was aiming to repeat his success with Gone with the Wind, but he constantly interfered with his six top […]

Jul, 30

Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618

The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]

Jun, 19

Gun Crazy ***** (1949, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 2566

‘We go together, Laurie. I don’t know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1949 film noir favourite stars John Dall as gun-loving Barton ‘Bart’ Tare, a World War Two […]

Jun, 07

Elephant *** (2003, Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1373

Two neo-Nazi high-school boys (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) watch some Hitler rally newsreels, listen to Beethoven, then get kitted up in military gear and run amuck with a vast arsenal of weapons at their fictional […]

Jun, 29

The Doom Generation ***½ (1995, James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech) – Classic Movie Review 1,040

Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom Generation is gleefully gross, violent and ultra-provocative. Gay Asian American cult director Gregg Araki’s 1995 black comedy road movie The Doom […]

Apr, 02

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