Recent Posts
- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
- The Ride Back *** (1957, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan) – Classic Movie Review 13,913
- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
- Perro Perro *** (2025, Germán Flood, Juan Ramos) – Classic Movie Review 13,907
- A Taste of Excitement ** (1969, Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Francis Matthews, Sophie Hardy, Paul Hubschmid, Kay Walsh, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 13,906
- Lone Cowboy ** (1933, Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 13,905
Uncategorized
Hotel *** (1967, Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Merle Oberon, Richard Conte, Michael Rennie, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 10,003
Arthur Haley’s bestselling novel about the dramas at a grand hotel (the imaginary St Gregory in New Orleans) gets the glossy, over-elaborate, rather laborious Hollywood treatment in director Richard Quine’s 1967 film Hotel. It is […]
Hot Rod Girl ** (1956, Lori Nelson, Chuck Connors, John Smith, Mark Andrews, Roxanne Arlen, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 10,002
‘CHICKEN-RACE … ROCK ‘N ROLL … YOUTH ON THE LOOSE!’ ‘ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN? Teenage terrorists tearing up the streets!’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s campy 1956 black and white teensploitation action psychotronic film Hot Rod […]
Sitting Target ** (1972, Oliver Reed, Jill St John, Ian McShane, Edward Woodward, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 9,954
The 1972 film Sitting Target is a vicious, crude crime thriller with Oliver Reed and Ian McShane going into overdrive. Director Douglas Hickox’s 1972 film Sitting Target is a vicious, crude and undistinguished but often […]
Mothra [Mosura] *** (1961, Furankî Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa) – Classic Movie Review 9953
Director Ishirō Honda’s 1961 Japanese fantasy, sci-fi thriller kaiju film Mothra [Mosura] is the first film in the popular Mothra franchise. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it stars Furankî Sakai [Frankie Sakai], Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyōko […]
Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller] ** (1996, Ben Gazzara, Alex McArthur, Stephen Davies) – Classic Movie Review 9942
Ben Gazzara is excellent in director Terence H Winkless’s contrived, dark-toned but taut and highly watchable 1996 psychological thriller, Scene of the Crime [Ladykiller]. Despite being under investigation for a blunder that resulted in his […]
Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] ** (1986, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Victor Lanoux) – Classic Movie Review 9941
French director André Téchiné’s 1986 drama Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] is a dour, sluggish and old-fashioned film about a beautiful cafe owner called Lili Ravenel (Catherine Deneuve) falling for […]
Carmen ***½ (1984, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi) – Classic Movie Review 9835
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]