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Open Season [Los Cazadores] * (1974, Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Cornelia Sharpe) – Classic Movie Review 9088

Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]

Nov, 22

Tracks *** (1976, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9018

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks stars Dennis Hopper as Vietnam veteran sergeant Jack Falen, who accompanies the funeral casket of a dead comrade in arms on an epic train journey across the US to […]

Oct, 25

Blind Fury *** (1989, Rutger Hauer, Terry O’Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham, Lisa Blount, Nick Cassavetes, Meg Foster) – Classic Movie Review 8865

Director Phillip Noyce’s 1989 Blind Fury stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a war-blinded samurai swordsman and Vietnam vet, who rescues Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call), the spoiled son of his old army buddy Frank Devereaux […]

Aug, 25

House *** (1985, William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll) – Classic Movie Review 8141

Perry Mason’s William Katt and George Cheers’s Wendt join forces for director Steve Miner’s daft yet popular 1985 haunted mansion horror-thriller House, with a high tally of foolish laughs and fairground ride-style scares. Katt plays […]

Feb, 17

Enter the Dragon *** (1973, Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7337

‘The first American produced martial arts spectacular!’ Director Robert Clouse’s 1973 classic martial arts action thriller Enter the Dragon finds Hollywood taking over the kung fu film and sanitising it into a glossy, escapist thriller […]

Jul, 24

Who’ll Stop the Rain [Dog Soldiers] *** (1978, Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 6636

Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]

Feb, 01

Taxi Driver ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 1387

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 ultra-realistic crime/vigilante thriller is both incredibly bleak and searing. It’s dazzlingly made by a hot and hungry Scorsese and spectacularly acted by its star Robert De Niro in one of his most […]

Jul, 02

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