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Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] **** (1985, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9677
Director David Drury’s outstanding political conspiracy thriller Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] furrowed a few brows in London’s Whitehall government district on its release in 1985. Gabriel Byrne stars in his career-making […]
The Little Drummer Girl ** (1984, Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 9278
Director George Roy Hill’s disappointing 1984 thriller The Little Drummer Girl stars Diane Keaton, whose performance as a naive pro-Palestinian American actress called Charlie involved in spying in the Arab-Israel conflict just about saves a […]
Winter Kills ** (1979, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 9,009
Jeff Bridges, John Huston and Anthony Perkins head an eccentric all-star cast in writer-director William Richert’s wild and baffling 1979 satirical black comedy paranoia political thriller Winter Kills about a presidential assassination. As written and directed […]
The Russia House **½ (1990, Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6662
Director Fred Schepisi’s 1990 The Russia House stars Sean Connery, who is back in the USSR as Barley Blair, romancing Russian woman Katya (an unlikely Michelle Pfeiffer), in this intriguing, picturesque and well-acted if clunky and […]
The Interpreter ***½ (2005, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Earl Cameron, Yves Attal, Hugo Speer, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 5034
Director Sydney Pollack conjures up a spirited, good old-fashioned Hitchcock-style mystery suspense thriller, with its serious elements slightly struggling against a twisty plot that is a bit predictable and cheesy. But it is all very […]
The Contender **** (2000, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William L Petersen, Philip Baker Hall, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 3168
‘Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.’ Joan Allen stars as Senator Laine Hanson, who is a hot contender for the job of US Vice President. But then both true information and false […]
Salvador ***** (1986, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 2076
Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s brilliantly fired-up, exhilarating 1986 political thriller is a report from troubled Central America and is based on the real-life adventures of American photo-journalist Richard Boyle (played by a sizzling James Woods) who […]