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Falling Down ** (1993, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 10,652
Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]
The First Purge (2018, Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga, Patch Darragh, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review
The fourth in the franchise started by The Purge back in 2013 is a nasty, unpleasant and revolting exploiter peddling strong disturbing violence and a wrong-headed near-future alternate reality, where the rich folks in power in […]
Stranger from Venus * (1954, Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham) – Classic Movie Review 3755
Producer-director Burt Balaban’s amateurish independently made 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film about first contact with aliens stars a down-on-their-luck Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine. Neal plays Susan North, an American woman who crashes her car […]
Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836
Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]
Brute Force **** (1947, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Yvonne De Carlo) – Classic Movie Review 1580
Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]
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