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Passenger 57 *** (1992, Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 2299

Director Kevin Hooks’s 1992 action crime thriller is an engagingly preposterous slice of energised, vigorous hokum. There’s a decent Die Hard on a plane set-up and a good star turn and an effective villain, but an […]

Mar, 22

Natural Born Killers ** (1994, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2080

Director Oliver Stone’s hugely controversial 1994 serial killer thriller and media satire started life originally as a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. But here it is substantially reinvented and given a changed ending by writer-director Stone, […]

Jan, 17

Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954

Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]

Dec, 14

Strange Days *** (1995, Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Film Review 760

Britain’s Ralph Fiennes is oddly cast as American ex-cop turned cynical cyberpunk Lenny Nero in a sea of troubles in director Kathryn Bigelow’s nastily violent ‘apocalypse soon’ sci-fi thriller, made in 1995 but set cannily […]

Jan, 27

True Romance ***** (1993, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn) – Classic Movie Review 756

Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]

Jan, 26

Red Planet **** (2000, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 707

The special effects are out of this world in director Anthony Hoffman’s gripping Aussie-made 2001 sci-fi thriller, which provides an entertaining visual treat with its splendidly realised vision of Mars in the future. Mission commander […]

Jan, 17

Bringing Out the Dead **** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 701

Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]

Jan, 15

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