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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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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, […]
Joe *** (2013, Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan) – Movie Review
Nicolas Cage profitably goes back to his indie roots as an ex-con called Joe, oddly enough, who provides the unlikeliest of role models when he meets and hires a keen, eager-beaver 15-year-old boy named Gary (Tye […]
Gandhi ***** (1982, Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Mills, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson) – Classic Movie Review 1488
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring 1982 film Gandhi was a triumph, scooping eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley’s unforgettable performance as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). John […]
The Yards **** (2000, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan) – Classic Movie Review 1429
Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]
Slap Shot **** (1977, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean) – Classic Movie Review 1427
Director George Roy Hill’s funny, fast and furious 1977 ice hockey comedy drama stars Paul Newman, who is on top form as Reggie Dunlop, an ageing player-coach sports star who plays dirty to win. His struggling Charlestown […]
Bowling for Columbine **** (2002, dir Michael Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1377
‘Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?’ Writer-director Michael Moore’s gripping, provocative, chilling 2002 Oscar-winning documentary explores America’s love affair with firearms in the wake of two kids massacring 13 […]
Elephant *** (2003, Elias McConnell, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1373
Two neo-Nazi high-school boys (Alex Frost, Eric Deulen) watch some Hitler rally newsreels, listen to Beethoven, then get kitted up in military gear and run amuck with a vast arsenal of weapons at their fictional […]