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Rolling Thunder **** (1977, William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes) – Classic Movie Review 11,190

Director John Flynn’s 1977 Seventies revenge film Rolling Thunder is a highly intriguing post-Vietnam thriller, in which a tortured former PoW, war hero Major Charles Rane (William Devane), sets off on the vengeance death trail […]

May, 10

Ms. 45 [Angel of Vengeance] *** (Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys) – Classic Movie Review 10,318

‘She was abused and violated. It will never happen again!’ A timid, mute Manhattan woman called Thana (Zoë Lund) gets raped twice after coming home from work, then dresses suggestively, cruises the streets and wreaks […]

Sep, 17

Nighthawks *** (1981, Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Nigel Davenport, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta) – Classic Movie Review 8396

Sylvester Stallone stars in Nighthawks (1981) as New York City street cop Deke DaSilva, who reluctantly takes on the job of terminating international terrorist Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt (played by Rutger Hauer) when he blows up a […]

Apr, 24

Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31

Ten Tall Men *** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 7487

Director Willis Goldbeck’s 1951 Technicolor adventure Ten Tall Men is an engaging, light-hearted send-up of French Foreign Legion movies like Beau Geste. It finds Burt Lancaster evidently enjoying himself as the US sergeant, Mike Kincaid, […]

Aug, 23

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08

The Shooting Party **** (1985, James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud, Gordon Jackson, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Hardy, Frank Windsor, Rupert Frazer, Judi Bowker) – Classic Movie Review 6278

Edwardian barrister Lionel Stephens (Rupert Frazer) engages with renowned sportsman Lord Gilbert Hartlip (Edward Fox) in an escalating contest over who can shoot the most game in director Alan Bridges’s rich and rewarding 1985 British […]

Nov, 21

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