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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
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To Kill a King *** (2003, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, Rupert Everett, James Bolam, Corin Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2120
Tim Roth has a field day as historical film baddie Oliver Cromwell in this tale of the fall of King Charles I (Rupert Everett) at the end of the English Civil War in 1645. It […]
Unbroken **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Luke Treadaway, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review
Unbroken is a gruelling, harrowing and upsetting true-life story of unimaginably appalling wartime suffering. But the film is brilliantly done and another feather in the cap of our little marvel Jack O’Connell. O’Connell hits the […]
A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review
In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]
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, […]
The Bridge on the River Kwai ***** (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa) – Classic Movie Review 1396
Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]
Swimming with Sharks **** (1994, Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes, Benicio Del Toro, Jerry Levine, T E Russell, Roy Dotrice) – Classic Movie Review 1028
Writer-director George Huang’s dark 1994 black comedy crime psychological drama Swimming with Sharks finds Kevin Spacey playing one of the main sharks swimming in the Hollywood pool in this thrillingly-acted, involving and quite engrossingly written Tinseltown […]
The Long Kiss Goodnight *** (1996, Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Yvonne Zima) – Classic Movie Review 911
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a very cynical, fast-driving, exciting 1996 action thriller from director Renny Harlin, who likes to deliver sadistic moments, creating a hard edge for what is essentially a rather corny piece. […]