The Fog * (1980, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers) – Classic Movie Review 2969

Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]

Rollerball ***** (1975, James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn) – Classic Movie Review 2,962

Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]

The Bad and the Beautiful ***** (1952, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 2363

They Live by Night ***** (1948, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard DaSilva, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 1585

This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly emotional 1948 poetic film noir about doomed lovers on the run is cult co-writer/director Nicholas Ray’s superb first movie. The prototype for the whole couple on the run genre, it is way […]

Scrooged **** (1988, Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 566

Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star turn as Frank Cross, a hateful, curmudgeonly, Scrooge-like American TV executive, in the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Director Richard Donner’s 1988 update on Charles Dickens’s perennially […]

Citizen Kane ***** (1941, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 25

Citizen Kane (1941) is the cinema’s Hamlet. All that has to be done to defend it against attacks from the philistines is to screen it as often as possible to the young, the curious, the […]