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The Brain [Le Cerveau] * (1969, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti) – Classic Movie Review 10,350

Director Gérard Oury’s 1969 French crime caper film The Brain [Le Cerveau] is a tepid, too unsubtle and slapstick-toned international Sixties heist comedy, wasting David Niven as a British NATO army colonel (‘The Brain’), who […]

Sep, 26

Juggernaut **** (1974, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 9929

Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]

Jun, 18

Operation Bikini * (1963, Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady) – Classic Movie Review 9380

‘TEMPTATION in PARADISE… Neither hell nor high heels could stop them!’ Debut director Anthony Carras’s 1963 World War Two war film Operation Bikini [The Seafighter] stars Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon and Scott Brady, and is […]

Feb, 14

Firepower ** (1979, Sophia Loren, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Anthony Franciosa, O J Simpson, George Grizzard, Vincent Gardenia, Victor Mature) – Classic Movie Review 9114

Michael Winner throws all the star power he can muster into his complicated 1979 revenge action thriller Firepower, with lots of jet-setting, crashes and explosions. Sophia Loren stars as vengeful Adele Tasca, who is trying […]

Dec, 01

Otley *** (1969, Tom Courtenay, Romy Schneider, Alan Badel, James Villiers, Leonard Rossiter, Freddie Jones, James Bolam, James Maxwell, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 8856

Director Dick Clement’s 1968 spy comedy Otley is an amiable and fairly funny, if a bit clumsy and broad, Ealing Studios-style Sixties spoof thriller, eager to please in sending up James Bondage and swinging London. […]

Aug, 23

Tango & Cash **** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7651

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]

Oct, 09

Rambo III ** (1988, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge) – Classic Movie Review 7647

Director Peter Macdonald’s 1988 Rambo III, the second sequel to Rambo: First Blood, is an increasingly over-the-top and unsubtle American flag-waving violent action thriller, in which Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo goes off to sort out […]

Oct, 08

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