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Those Who Wish Me Dead * (2021, Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Jon Bernthal) – Movie Review
[Spoiler alert] Director Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) is a perplexingly poor action thriller with Angelina Jolie under-employed and under-engaged as troubled fire-fighter Hannah, who befriends a 14-year-old boy called Connor (Finn […]
Young Sherlock Holmes **** (1985, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Susan Fleetwood) – Classic Movie Review 8533
Director Barry Levinson’s 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes is a film that starts with a bright idea and always knows where it’s going. Screen-writer Chris Columbus, who wrote Gremlins and The Goonies suggests that Sir Arthur […]
Comes a Horseman ***½ (1978, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, James Caan, George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth, Jim Davis, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 6379
Director Alan J Pakula’s 1978 modern-day 1940s-set Western is impressive and relishable, even if it is not entirely successful. Jane Fonda and James Caan play Ella Connors and ‘Buck’ Athearn, Montana ranch-owners who fight wicked […]
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest [Luftslottet som sprängdes] *** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre ) – Classic Movie Review 6099
The final part of the Swedish-language thriller trilogy based on Stieg Larsson’s novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) picks up immediately […]
Carmen Jones **** (1954, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 5675
For its 1954 20th Century Fox film musical Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein’s renowned contemporary update on the Georges Bizet opera Carmen provides new, modernised lyrics and an African-American cast. It has ideal casting with Dorothy […]
Prometheus **** (2012, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall) – Classic Movie Review 4,813
Ridley Scott’s tense and scary Alien universe prequel film Prometheus, in which a team journey to a distant moon and find a structure with a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of […]
The Keeping Room ***½ (2014, Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review
Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru deliver exceptional performances in this fresh-seeming, women-led take on the classic Western written by Julia Hart and directed in Romania by Daniel Barber, the director of Harry Brown (2009). A trio […]