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The Chosen **** (1981, Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 7777
Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1981 drama The Chosen is a first-rate film from Chaim Potok’s novel about two late teenage boys in Forties New York (it is 1944 in Brooklyn) – Hasidic Orthodox Jewish boy […]
Slaughterhouse Rulez * (2018, Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Tom Rhys Harries, Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review
Writer-director Crispian Mills’s misfiring British comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) starts out as a public school spoof and turns into a monster movie spoof half way as a sinkhole appears at a fracking site near the boarding school, unleashing scary […]
The Valachi Papers *** (1972, Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 7776
Charles Bronson plays gangster and informer Joseph Valachi, who spills the beans on his real-life Mafia tale, in director Terence Young’s 1972 thriller The Valachi Papers [Joe Valachi, I Segreti di Cosa Nostra], a very […]
The Stone Killer ** (1973, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin) – Classic Movie Review 7775
The Stone Killer (1973) is another violent, unattractive Charles Bronson – Michael Winner action thriller film, released a year before their box-office bonanza with Death Wish, this time with the stone-faced Bronson as an LA […]
A Chorus of Disapproval *** (1989, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Richard Briers, Gareth Hunt, Patsy Kensit, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Syms, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 7774
Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant 1983 bittersweet comedy play A Chorus of Disapproval, originally performed at Britain’s National Theatre, comes to the screen in 1988 produced and directed by Michael Winner and with a starry, starry cast […]
The Wicked Lady ** (1983, Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales, Oliver Tobias, Glynis Barber, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7773
In 1983, director Michael Winner remakes the old 1945 Gainsborough Studios bodice-ripper The Wicked Lady, with all the excesses he was famed for. It is an old-fashioned costume romp spiced up with sex and nudity. […]
Dirty Weekend * (1993, Lia Williams, Rufus Sewell, Michael Cule, Sylvia Syms, David McCallum, Ian Richardson, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 7772
Director Michael Winner’s unpleasant 1993 British movie Dirty Weekend turns Helen Zahavi’s praised feminist book into a female version of Winner’s own Death Wish movies, in which Lia Williams stars as Bella, a woman justly […]
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- Bond of Fear *** (1956, Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, John Colicos, Alan MacNaughtan, Jameson Clark, John Horsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,856
- Other Men’s Women *** (1930, Grant Withers, James Cagney, Mary Astor, Joan Blondell, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,855
- The Bowery **** (1933, Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton, Herman Bing, George Walsh, Oscar Apfel, Harold Huber) – Classic Movie Review 13,854
- Dead Man’s Wire **** (2025, Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Myha’la, John Robinson, Kelly Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 13,853
- Jonathan **** (2016, Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer) – Classic Movie Review 13,852
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