Recent Posts
- And Someone Else *** [En iemand anders] (2025, Pier Bonnema, Rienus Krul, Hanneke Scholten) – Classic Movie Review 14,036
- Zeder *** (1983, Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canova, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti) – Classic Movie Review 14,035
- The House with Laughing Windows [La Casa dalle Finestre che Ridono] *** (1976, Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina) – Classic Movie Review 14,034
- I Want Your Sex *** (2026, Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Margaret Cho, Johnny Knoxville, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Charli XCX) – Classic Movie Review 14,033
- La Corta Notte delle Bambole di Vetro [Short Night of Glass Dolls] *** (1971, Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Barbara Bach, Mario Adorf) – Classic Movie Review 14,032
- Bitter Christmas [Amarga Navidad] **** (2026, Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Quim Gutiérrez, Rossy de Palma) – Classic Movie Review 14,031
- Hooked *** (2017, Conor Donnally, Sean Ormond, Terrance Murphy, Katie McClellan) – Classic Movie Review 14,030
- Bait * (2000, Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchison, Kimberly Elise, David Paymer, Mike Epps, Robert Pastorelli, Jamie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 14,029
- Bait *** (1954, Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar) – Classic Movie Review 14,028
- Born to Be Loved *** (1959, Carol Morris, Vera Vague, Hugo Haas, and Dick Kallman) – Classic Movie Review 14,027
Uncategorized
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 […]
Big Jim McLain (1952, John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 9833
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]
The White Bus *** (1967, Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp) Classic Movie Review 9808
The White Bus is a humorous, flavourful and poignant 1967 46-minute short film directed by Lindsay Anderson, now a time capsule. In it, Patricia Healey plays The Girl, who leaves depressive London on a train […]