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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
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The Spider Woman ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 1,027
The thoroughly enjoyable 1943 mystery film The Spider Woman sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes investigating the ‘pajama suicides’ case. Gale Sondergaard’s Adrea Spedding proves a worthy adversary. ‘I’m so sorry we have nothing in the […]
The Borderlands [Final Prayer] *** (2013, Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan McArdle, Patrick Godfrey) – Movie Review
First-time writer-director Elliot Goldner’s found-footage horror movie focuses on two Catholic priests and an unbelieving techie investigating reports of paranormal activity at a remote country church in the British West Country. Though admittedly I didn’t […]
The Bone Collector *** (1999, Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 973
Critics were sent a bag of phony blood as their invitation to this dark Se7en-style serial killer action thriller – an apt image for a movie that manages most of the snap and crackle but […]
The Prophecy II **** (1998, Christopher Walken, Russell Wong, Jennifer Beals, Brittany Murphy, Eric Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 836
Christopher Walken reprises his role as the extremely bad and dangerous, and now angry, fallen Archangel Gabriel in director Greg Spence’s eerie, exuberant and often very compelling supernatural 1998 horror-fantasy thriller sequel to the 1995 […]
Bastards (Les salauds) – Film Review
Vincent Lindon stars as supertanker captain Marco Silvestri, who is called back urgently to Paris, where his sister Sandra (Julie Bataille) is desperate. Her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under and her […]
The Butcher Boy **** (1997, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson, Sinéad O’Connor, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 794
This story of innocence undone comes from the director of Michael Collins, Mona Lisa (1984), The Crying Game (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1998 film The Butcher Boy is one of this fine film-maker’s […]
The Big Heat ***** (1953, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando) – Classic Movie Review 738
Director Fritz Lang’s 1953 humdinger of a film-noir classic crime thriller The Big Heat sees the director and his actors shooting with all guns blazing. Glenn Ford stars as tough, maverick cop called Detective Sergeant […]