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Night Train to Munich **** (1940, Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt, Felix Aylmer, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 1,832

Carol Reed’s fast-moving, enjoyable 1940 thriller film Night Train to Munich is written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. It brings back Margaret Lockwood as the heroine, and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as cricket-mad […]

Nov, 11 · in Reviews

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 **** (2014, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth) – Movie Review

Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen for the first half of the two-part finale film in the trilogy from Suzanne Collins’s novel sequence. Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are back, too, as the men in […]

Nov, 11 · in Reviews

Your Friends and Neighbours *** (1998, Jason Patric, Catherine Keener, Ben Stiller, Nastassja Kinski, Aaron Eckhart, Amy Brenneman) – Classic Movie Review 1831

Writer-director Neil LaBute’s darkly satirical 1998 tale of bed hopping among some of life’s unhappy couples is extreme, cynical and quite alienating. But it is also very well acted and cleverly scripted. It’s a smart […]

Nov, 10

Mystic Pizza *** (1988, Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1830

Director Donald Petrie’s delightful, easy-going 1988 comedy tells a charming if unsurprising tale of life, love and coming of age in the company of three feisty, attractive young women working at a pizza parlour in the […]

Nov, 10

Absolute Power *** (1997, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Judy Davis, Laura Linney) – Classic Movie Review 1,829

Clint Eastwood stars in the 1997 thriller film Absolute Power as a veteran career thief who witnesses a horrific crime involving the US President (Gene Hackman). Absolute power corrupts absolutely The improbable but fairly exciting […]

Nov, 10

True Crime ** (1999, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1828

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s 1999 potboiler thriller has stock characters and a hokey old plot about Steve Everett, a burnt-out wreck of a journalist (Eastwood). The Oakland Tribune journalist Everett, a man consumed with desire for […]

Nov, 10

Blood Work ** (2002, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston) – Classic Movie Review 1827

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood pairs with screen writer Brian Helgeland, the highly skilled and talented writer of L.A. Confidential, for this wearily convoluted 2002 thriller about Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI profiler (Eastwood), with a heart […]

Nov, 10

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