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Tube Tales **½ (1999, Jason Flemyng, Kelly Macdonald, Denise Van Outen, Tom Bell, Hans Matheson, Carmen Ejogo, Dexter Fletcher, Jim Carter, Sean Pertwee, Liz Smith, Ray Winstone, Rachel Weisz) – Classic Movie Review 4732

Nine short films set on the London Underground directed by and starring the hottest in British talent of 1999. Sounds good, doesn’t it? In Mr Cool, Jason Flemyng desperately tries to impress his dream woman, […]

Dec, 02

Europa [Zentropa] *** (1991, Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine) – Classic Movie Review 4669

Cult name director Lars von Trier’s interesting but dodgy 1991 art-movie, with some imaginative work in the pop-video-style visuals by von Trier and his three cinematographers (Henning Bendtsen, Edward Klosinski, Jean-Paul Meurisse) compensating for muddled […]

Nov, 20

The Taking of Pelham 123 *** (2009, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 4634

Director Tony Scott relentlessly ensures that his remake of the classic 1974 heist thriller The Taking of Pelham 123  is slick, tense, fast moving and flashy. Based on the novel by John Godey, it is all about […]

Nov, 11

Train of Events *** (1949, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Mary Morris, John Gregson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 4,593

Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]

Nov, 05

The Girl on the Train *** (2016, Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Édgar Ramírez, Laura Prepon) – Movie Review

Emily Blunt lands a stonking great star role as the depressed, alcoholic Rachel, divorced a year earlier and fired from her New York PR job, in director Tate Taylor’s murder mystery thriller, based on the novel […]

Oct, 04

Train to Busan [Busanhaeng] **** (2016, Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jeong) – Movie Review

OMG, it’s those pesky zombies again! A virus breaks out in South Korea and turns people into zombies, and the only way out alive from Seoul is to take the train to Busan. But, the […]

Sep, 14

The Circus Queen Murder *** (1933, Adolphe Menjou, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens, Dwight Frye, Donald Cook, Harry Holman) – Classic Movie Review 4292

‘MURDER WITH THOUSANDS OF EYE WITNESSES…but NO ONE COULD TELL HOW OR WHY SHE MET HER DEATH!’ Adolphe Menjou stars as police commissioner Thatcher Colt, who is on holiday in upstate New York with his […]

Sep, 03

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