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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown ½ (1987, Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P Ryan, Perry Lopez, Soon-Tek Oh) – Classic Movie Review 5051

Director J Lee Thompson’s tawdry and disreputable 1987 action thriller is the third sequel to Death Wish (1974). It once again stars Charles Bronson, at the age of 66 still playing wrinkled part-time vigilante, architect Paul […]

Feb, 23

Riff-Raff [Riffraff] *** (1947, Pat O’Brien, Anne Jeffreys, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 4999

Pat O’Brien stars as a conman who gets a map to a Panama oilfield and has to fend off the bad guys who are after it, in the 1947 adventure movie Riff-Raff [Riffraff]. Pat O’Brien […]

Feb, 06

Straw Dogs **** (1971, Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, T P McKenna, Colin Welland, Peter Arne, Jim Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4787

‘In the eyes of every coward burns a straw dog’. Excuse me? Dustin Hoffman stars as meek, pacifist American maths researcher David Sumner, who takes his British wife Amy (Susan George) to live in a […]

Dec, 12

Willard **** (1971, Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 4090

Director Daniel Mann’s 1971 horror thriller Willard is particularly effective little chiller about a psychotic teenager, starring Bruce Davison as Willard Stiles, who trains a pair of rats called Ben and Socrates for revenge on […]

Jul, 27

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 *** (2000, Jeffrey Donovan, Eric Leerhsen, Kim Director, Tristine Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Kurt Loder, Chuck Scarborough) – Classic Movie Review 4089

Oh shock! Oh horror! The witch is back in the inevitable sequel to 1999’s smash hit chiller The Blair Witch Project in co-writer/ director Joe Berlinger’s 2000 horror movie. And so, like lambs to the […]

Jul, 27

Days of Wine and Roses **** (1962, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman) – Classic Movie Review 4053

Director Blake Edwards’s 1962 drama is one of the cinema’s best films about the dangers of drink, perhaps second only to The Lost Weekend (1945). Jack Lemmon stars as clever but over-pressured advertising executive Joe Clay, who […]

Jul, 19

Pandora’s Box [Die Büchse der Pandora] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Gustav Diessl, Alice Roberts, Sigfried Arno) – Classic Movie Review 3805

The now legendary Louise Brooks thrillingly stars as the fatal charmer Lulu in Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s dazzling, erotic 1929 German silent melodrama film adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s theatre plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der […]

Jun, 04

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