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- The Flying Scot [Mailbag Robbery] *** (1957, Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford) – Classic Movie Review 12,864
- Trezor [Vault] **** (2018, Anger Zsolt, Péter Scherer, Tasnádi Bence, Bezerédi Zoltán, Gabriella Hámori, Ferenc Elek, Kőszegi Ákos) – Classic Movie Review 12,863
- Lock Up ** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 12,862
- Stupid Boy [Garçon Stupide] *** (2004, Pierre Chatagny, Natacha Koutchoumov, Rui Alves) – Classic Movie Review 12,861
- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
- George Washington Slept Here *** (1942, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 12,859
- The Great Victor Herbert *** (1939, Walter Connolly, Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Susanna Foster, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 12,858
- Undertow [Contracorriente] **** (2009, Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo) – Classic Movie Review 12,857
- Problemista *** (2024, Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres, Ronald Peet, Kelly McCormack, Paul Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 12,856
- Alex Strangelove *** (2018, Daniel Doheny, Antonio Marziale, Madeline Weinstein) – Classic Movie Review 12,855
Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] **** (2017, Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria) – Movie Review
CUSTODY. First rate: totally gripping, disturbing and credible throughout. French writer-director Xavier Legrand’s engrossing and powerful debut feature comes to UK cinemas on 23 March 2018. Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] is first rate: totally gripping, disturbing, […]
Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7025
The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. It is noisy, funny and full of action, but it was a troubled […]
Starting Over **** (1979, Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 7024
Director Alan J Pakula’s charming 1979 comedy-romance effectively casts Burt Reynolds as Phil Potter, the romantically inclined divorced writer who falls in love but finds he cannot choose between sweet teacher Marilyn Holmberg (Jill Clayburgh) […]
Fat Man and Little Boy [Shadow Makers] ** (1989, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia) – Classic Movie Review 7023
Director Roland Joffe (The Mission) tackles a big subject of the making of atomic bombs in his 1989 film drama and comes a cropper. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie R Groves who in 1942 heads […]
80,000 Suspects *** (1963, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 7022
Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]
Eight Legged Freaks *** (2002, David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E Doug, Rick Overton, Leon Rippy) – Classic Movie Review 7021
Watch out, bloodthirsty beasts are about when a bunch of exotic venomous spiders eat noxious chemicals of toxic waste and grow to humungous size. Naturally, there is a small American town to be terrorised, and […]
Eight Men Out **** (1988, John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D B Sweeney, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Movie Review 7020
Writer-director John Sayles’s fine 1988 film about the 1919 baseball scandal when eight underpaid members of the Chicago White Sox took money to throw the World Series. Eight Men Out is a satisfying experience, thanks to […]
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- The Flying Scot [Mailbag Robbery] *** (1957, Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford) – Classic Movie Review 12,864
- Trezor [Vault] **** (2018, Anger Zsolt, Péter Scherer, Tasnádi Bence, Bezerédi Zoltán, Gabriella Hámori, Ferenc Elek, Kőszegi Ákos) – Classic Movie Review 12,863
- Lock Up ** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 12,862
- Stupid Boy [Garçon Stupide] *** (2004, Pierre Chatagny, Natacha Koutchoumov, Rui Alves) – Classic Movie Review 12,861
- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
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