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- To Live, To Die, To Live Again [Vivre, mourir, renaître] *** (2024, Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, Théo Christine) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- Police Dog ** (1955, Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor, John le Mesurier, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 13,485
- No Trace *** (1950, Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- The Binding *** (2024, Yoav Keren, Shimon Mimran, Tal Ben Elazar) – Classic Movie Review 13,483
- Drive Me Home [Portami a casa] *** (2018, Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D’Amore, Jennifer Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 13,482
- 29 Acacia Avenue [The Facts of Love] *** (1945, Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Carla Lehmann, Jimmy Hanley, Jill Evans, Hubert Gregg, Dinah Sheridan, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,481
- Take My Life **** (1947, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L Sullivan, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 13,480
- Conclave ***** (2024, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 13,479
- Scott and Sid *** (2021, Richard Mason, Tom Blyth, Charlotte Milchard) – Classic Movie Review 13,478
- Dual Alibi ** (1947, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Ronald Frankau, Terence De Marney, Abraham Sofaer, Eugene Deckers, Ben Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,477
Fortunella *** (1958, Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Paul Douglas, Eduardo De Filippo) – Classic Movie Review 4852
Giulietta Masina stars brightly as Nanda Diotallevi, the so-called heroine ‘Fortunella’, in co-writer/ director Eduardo De Filippo’s delightful 1958 Italian comedy. Alberto Sordi co-stars as Peppino, with Paul Douglas as Professor Golfiero Paganica, Piera Arico as Katya and Carlo Delle Piane as Riccardino. Masina’s husband Federico Fellini also co-writes the amusing screenplay, along […]
Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] ** (1996, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Christopher Jones) – Classic Movie Review 4851
After just six movies as a star, and quitting in 1970 after Ryan’s Daughter, Christopher Jones made one final screen appearance in the 1996 American ensemble cast crime comedy Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] written and directed […]
Brief Season [Una Breve Stagione] *** (1969, Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Antonello Trombadori) – Classic Movie Review 4850
Co-writer/ director Renato Castellani’s 1969 Italian film reunites Christopher Jones and Pia Degermark, the glamorous young stars of The Looking Glass War (1969), who became friends in real life and formed an off-screen relationship through working on […]
The Looking Glass War **½ (1970, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Rogers, Pia Degermark, Susan George, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4849
Writer-director Frank R Pierson’s 1970 British thriller The Looking Glass War is a passable espionage entertainment, but it is hardly an ideal version of John le Carré’s thoughtful 1965 spy novel about the British intelligence […]
Wild in the Streets *** (1968, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Ed Begley, Richard Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 4848
Director Barry Shear’s intelligent and amusing 1968 youth satire stars Christopher Jones as rock star and presidential aspirant Max Flatow (aka Max Frost), who is elected US President when 14-year-olds are allowed to vote. ‘I […]
Chubasco *** (1967, Christopher Jones, Richard Egan, Susan Strasberg, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 4847
Writer-director Allen H Miner’s insignificant but pacy and attractive 1967 tuna-fishing adventure drama, conceived as a vehicle for the then hot young couple Christopher Jones and Susan Strasberg, must have seemed hopelessly outmoded and way […]
Assassin’s Creed ** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling) – Movie Review
Australian director Justin Kurzel graduates from directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Wlliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2015) to directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in game series spinoff Assassin’s Creed. Well, fair enough, you go where you can. What we have here is a […]
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- To Live, To Die, To Live Again [Vivre, mourir, renaître] *** (2024, Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, Théo Christine) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- Police Dog ** (1955, Joan Rice, Tim Turner, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor, John le Mesurier, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 13,485
- No Trace *** (1950, Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 13,484
- The Binding *** (2024, Yoav Keren, Shimon Mimran, Tal Ben Elazar) – Classic Movie Review 13,483
- Drive Me Home [Portami a casa] *** (2018, Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D’Amore, Jennifer Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 13,482
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